{"product_id":"9781481513463","title":"Plus One","description":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePlus One\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart and funny novel about Hollywood, but where it truly shines is in Noxon's stunning and painfully accurate depiction of the complex rhythms and growing pains of a marriage.” — Jonathan Tropper, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Where I Leave You\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne Last Thing Before I Go\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well observed, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny, \u003ci\u003ePlus One\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story from the inside of show business about being on the outside.\"— Matthew Weiner, creator of \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Noxon's debut novel \u003ci\u003ePlus One\u003c\/i\u003e is a comedic take on bread-winning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a TV pilot is produced, ordered to series, and awarded an Emmy. Overnight, she's sucked into a mad show-business vortex and he's tasked with managing their new high-profile Hollywood lifestyle. He falls in with a posse of Plus Ones, men who are married to women whose success, income, and public recognition far surpasses their own. What will it take for him to regain the foreground in his own life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Noxon\u003c\/b\u003e is an accomplished journalist who has written for such publications as the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e; his first book, \u003ci\u003eRejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up\u003c\/i\u003e (Crown), earned him interviews on such shows as the \u003ci\u003eColbert Report\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e and generated features in \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTalk of the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e; Ira Glass of \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e called the book \"an eye-opener.\" Noxon happens to be married to a top TV writer\/producer and does the school chauffeuring for their three children, so he knows whereof he speaks regarding Plus Ones. He lives in Los Angeles, California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Pub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049492496624,"sku":"9781481513463","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781481513463_p0.jpg?v=1763623185","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781481513463","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}