{"product_id":"9781465351630","title":"A Novel Cuisine","description":"A Novel Cuisine is a comic novel set in contemporary Cape Town. Norman Frye, a food critic, consultant and author of a daily blog, lives contentedly amidst black walls and cunningly placed pools of light, a couch atop a fish tank and a pet rat called Trotsky. He arrives home from a school reunion to find his partner, Ivy, having sex with a young man she had picked up in a coffee shop. A tempestuous fifty days follow for Norman, a rebound girl friend, Gabriella, Ivy and his campaigning, overbearing mother. It’s a time of family feuding, plans for a wake, disputed journals, a cookbook and ‘dark food’. There are secrets hidden in old tape recordings, death and Norman coming to terms with much more than infidelity.","brand":"Xlibris UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180592054512,"sku":"9781465351630","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781465351630_p0.jpg?v=1763683910","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781465351630","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}