{"product_id":"9781250047892","title":"Show World: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author of the beloved novels \u003ci\u003eGospel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmma Who Saved My Life,\u003c\/i\u003e Wilton Barnhardt is a writer of rare and extraordinary talent who has yet to walk the same ground twice.  With \u003ci\u003eShow World \u003c\/i\u003ehe offers a contemporary woman's story that will haunt its every reader.  Samantha Flint, the figure at the book's center, flees the Midwest for Smith College to shake her past, to invent a future she can live with.  There she meets the redoubtable Mimi Mohr; together and apart they move from New York to DC to LA.  Yet even as each new city takes them to fresh heights of power and wealth, everything Sam wants seems to elude her--and after a series of lapses, both desperate and careless, she finds her dreams have turned against her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of withering satire and unmatched imagination, \u003ci\u003eShow World \u003c\/i\u003eis Wilton Barnhardt's clear-eyed estimate of America and what we all want out of her.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127844487408,"sku":"9781250047892","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250047892_p0.jpg?v=1769892168","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250047892","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}