{"product_id":"9781609804114","title":"Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBuzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?\u003c\/i\u003e, readers follow a man who wishes not to be followed, a man who, after a series of personal and professional disasters, finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless Faroe Islands, population only a few thousand, a wad of bills in his pocket and no memory of how he had come to be there. From there, Brage Award-winning author and playwright Johan Harstad's debut novel—previously published to great success in eleven countries with its first English-language appearance in June 2011—tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon: the man who was willing to stand in Neil Armstrong's shadow in order to work, diligently and humbly, for the success of the Apollo 11 mission. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Harstad's \"delectably light but nonetheless impactful prose . . . [t]he novel's finest moments wrap you up in communion with Mattias, as if you are spending a quiet afternoon with an old friend, chatting but mostly thinking\" (\u003ci\u003eThree Percent\u003c\/i\u003e). Surrounded by a vivid and memorable cast of characters—aspiring pop musicians, Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted photographers, girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with them on bus trips, and even Buzz Aldrin himself—\"Harstad combines formal play and linguistic ferocity with a searing emotional directness\" (Dedi Felman, Words Without Borders) to bring Mattias to the realization that he cannot always blend into the background.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054952202480,"sku":"9781609804114","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609804114_p0.jpg?v=1763837584","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609804114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}