{"product_id":"9781497685154","title":"Pretty Leslie: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of midcentury America’s most ambitious and entertaining novelists, the dazzling and disturbing portrait of a housewife’s erotic adventures \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beautiful, intelligent, and charming, Leslie Daniels is the wife of a successful Illinois physician. To her friends and family, she appears to be happily living the American dream. But there is another side to Leslie, one propelled by lust and unsettling impulses that run completely counter to her comfortable midwestern routine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So far, Leslie has managed to keep her unwholesome appetites in check, but when her husband travels out of town to attend a medical conference, she takes the opportunity to commit her first act of adultery. What ensues is a stunning plunge into the depths of desire and despair as Leslie realizes that, once freed from the boundaries of convention, her urges can never again be contained or satisfied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eas a “novel of unusual power” about “a spiritual sister to Dostoevsky’s ‘underground man,’ ” \u003ci\u003ePretty Leslie \u003c\/i\u003eis a testament to the astonishing powers of R. V. Cassill’s imagination. It is also, from first page to last, a thrilling, unrelenting, and absolutely unforgettable sexual drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126882025712,"sku":"9781497685154","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781497685154_p0.jpg?v=1769896146","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781497685154","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}