{"product_id":"9781554885923","title":"Planet Reese","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e Long-listed for the ReLit Award, 2009\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reese Larkin is desperate to find the perfect mattress. His job is in jeopardy and he’s been forced to separate from his wife and children, but he believes that if he can find the ultimate sleep system his life will begin anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In her seventh novel, Cordelia Strube grabs readers by the neuroses with a dark but wickedly fun story about a former Greenpeace activist forced to turn marketeer who battles against a world in which he is confronted by shift mattress sales clerks, a Fred and Ginger-obsessed strip-bar waitress, derisive colleagues, and a wife who has mysteriously turned cold and is keeping his children from him. Alone in his damp basement apartment with his daughter’s hamster, he longs for a good night’s sleep and, though faced with despair, begins each day hopefully as he grips tighter to the edges of his life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Engaging, enlightening, and always entertaining, \u003ci\u003ePlanet Reese\u003c\/i\u003e is an intensely personal and endearing tale of a man holding on to his sanity against all odds in an increasingly unhinged world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166804426992,"sku":"9781554885923","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554885923_p0.jpg?v=1763752792","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554885923","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}