{"product_id":"9780544286917","title":"The Garrick Year: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Golden PEN Award–winning author: A “well-written, entertaining” dark comedy of a marriage on the rocks in 1960s London (Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Emma and David Evans seem to have a perfect life. He’s a handsome and successful Welsh actor; she’s a sometimes model, soon-to-be television news anchor, and full-time mother. But all is not well under the surface. She’s impatient and choked by domesticity; he’s narcissistic and unfaithful. Between the two of them is a privately combative marriage that has fed their want of drama.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Then David relocates the family from their London home to provincial Hereford, where he’s to star in two plays during the city’s festival season. It’s here, far removed from the highbrow stimulation of the city, that Emma’s resentment of David—his long hours, his expectations, his ego—finally boils over. Bored and lonely, she falls into the arms of the theater’s director, an indiscretion that triggers a series of surprises neither Emma nor David could have foreseen.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Narrated by a complicated, fascinating, and fiercely intelligent woman at the end of her rope, \u003ci\u003eThe Garrick Year\u003c\/i\u003e is “a witty, beautiful novel . . . written with extraordinary art” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[A] romantic novel about actors and the theatre and marriage and sex and babies . . . deliciously bitter . . . so alive.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Unsparing . . . a very knowing, diverting entertainment.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120446882032,"sku":"9780544286917","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544286917_p0.jpg?v=1769916608","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544286917","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}