{"product_id":"9781429949910","title":"Luminous Airplanes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA decade after the publication of \u003ci\u003eHaussmann, or the Distinction, \u003c\/i\u003ehis  acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his  imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn  September 2000, a young programmer comes home from a fes­tival in the  Nevada desert and learns that his grandfather has died, and that he has  to return to Thebes, a town which is so isolated that its inhabitants  have their own language, in order to clean out the house where his  family lived for five generations. While he's there, he runs into Yesim,  a Turkish American woman whom he loved as a child, and begins a romance  in which past and present are dangerously confused. At the same time,  he remembers San Francisco in the wild years of the Internet boom, and  mourns the loss of Swan, a madman who may have been the only person to  understand what was happening to the city, and to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLuminous Airplanes \u003c\/i\u003ehas  a singular form: the novel, complete in itself, is accompanied by an  online \"immersive text,\" which continues the story and complements it.  Nearly ten years in the making, La Farge's ambitious new work considers  large worlds and small ones, love, mem­ory, family, flying machines,  dance music, and the end of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154043683056,"sku":"9781429949910","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429949910_p0.jpg?v=1769902148","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429949910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}