{"product_id":"book-bpmr","title":"Tuesday Nights in 1980","description":"An intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and their shared muse as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, quickly gentrifying playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ewhose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason—a small town beauty and Raul’s muse—and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they’ve lost.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs inventive as Jennifer Egan’s \u003ci\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad \u003c\/i\u003eand as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer’s \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 \u003c\/i\u003eboldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347489169712,"sku":"BDbpmr","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/109713-bpmr-Square.jpg?v=1734206153","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bpmr","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}