{"product_id":"9780593081013","title":"The Great Mistake: A novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), “immersive” (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), and “seriously entertaining” (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times,\u003c\/i\u003e London).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Mistake \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043817111792,"sku":"9780593081013","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780593081013_p0.jpg?v=1763720184","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780593081013","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}