{"product_id":"9781250123961","title":"Man of the Year","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hilarious and poignant\" — \u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor one 1970’s family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with \u003ci\u003eRumours\u003c\/i\u003e, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts– a backwater town of witches, Puritans, and sea-captain wannabes. After his eighth move in a dozen years, Lou figures he should just resign himself to a teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes, school bullies, and unrequited lust for every girl he likes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen one October morning an old friend of Lou’s father, free-wheeling (and free-loving) Howie Gordon arrives at the Cove doorstep from California with his beautiful wife Carly. Howie is everything Lou wants to be: handsome as a movie star, built like a god and in possession of an unstoppable confidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, over Thanksgiving dinner, Howie drops a bombshell. Holding up an issue of \u003ci\u003ePlaygirl\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, he flips to the center and there he is, Mr. November in all his natural glory. Howie has his eye on becoming the next Burt Reynolds, and a wild idea for how to do it: win \u003ci\u003ePlaygirl\u003c\/i\u003e’s Man of the Year. And he knows just who should manage his campaign. As Lou and Howie canvas Salem for every vote in town – little old ladies at bridge club, the local town witch, construction workers on break and everyone in between – Lou is forced to juggle the perils of adolescence with the pursuit of Hollywood stardom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMan of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e is the improbable true story of Lou’s thirteenth year, one very unusual campaign, and the unexpected guest who changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flatiron Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047385546992,"sku":"9781250123961","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250123961_p0.jpg?v=1763702635","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250123961","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}