{"product_id":"9780802198587","title":"Wildlife","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel of a fracturing family in 1960 Montana, “full of prose that makes the reader shiver,” by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRock Springs\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana. But the new start didn’t go quite as planned. Jerry Brinson is a golf pro to rich country club members, but then loses the job. In reaction, he joins a firefighting crew working in the mountains—as his wife becomes entangled in an affair with one of the businessmen from the club.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Told from the point of view of Joe as a grown man looking back on those days in 1960, \u003ci\u003eWildlife\u003c\/i\u003e is a “heartbreaking and compelling” novel about love, family, and the forces that test them to the breaking point by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eCanada\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The basis for a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, \u003ci\u003eWildlife\u003c\/i\u003e is “a wise, humane, and disarmingly simple novel of domestic distress” (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “There is at the heart of this novel a deep nostalgia for that moment when a person recognizes a true perfection in the way things once were, before the onset of ruin and great change.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118503772400,"sku":"9780802198587","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802198587_p0.jpg?v=1763727087","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802198587","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}