{"product_id":"9781504015233","title":"English Settlement","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thirty-something, would-be master of the universe tries to reinvent himself in London in this hip and hilarious novel about ambition, family, missed connections, and Anglo-American relations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is the late nineties. The Iraqis are in Kuwait and the former decade’s financial bubble has burst. From his high-backed swivel chair in an eight-foot cubicle on the sixth floor of a London management-consulting firm, Scott Marshall prays he can survive the coming carnage.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The son of an inveterate Anglophile, Marshall moved to England when his former employer—Manhattan’s Hassenblad Consultancy—went belly-up. With the optimistic wine- and money-flowing days of Reaganomics vanished into a sinkhole of blighted hope and stalled aspirations, Scott is desperate to hold on to his job amid massive layoffs. He is meanwhile dealing with a girlfriend hiding a nasty secret; an embattled football club that conceals a wellspring of deceit and subterfuge; and the reappearance of his father, whose ill-timed visit unleashes a swarm of ghosts from the past.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From Wall Street to Belgravia, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Settlement \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about manners, money, morals, and national identity on both sides of the Atlantic.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127166189808,"sku":"9781504015233","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504015233_p0.jpg?v=1763709744","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504015233","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}