{"product_id":"9781411429543","title":"The Gambler (Barnes \u0026 Noble Library of Essential Reading)","description":"Perhaps better than any other work of fiction, \u003cb\u003eDostoevsky’s\u003c\/b\u003e novel \u003ci\u003eThe Gambler\u003c\/i\u003e captures and analyzes gaming’s fatal attraction.  We follow Aleksey Ivanovich’s ups and downs in the make-believe German city of Roulettenburg, where nationalities mix in a frenzied competition for money and status.  Written in twenty-six days to beat an unscrupulous publisher’s deadline,\u003ci\u003e The Gambler \u003c\/i\u003eis based on the author’s own struggles with gambling addiction. It will leave readers amused and baffled at Aleksey’s contradictory and self-destructive energy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124244267248,"sku":"9781411429543","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781411429543","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}