{"product_id":"book-bx9z","title":"Carousel Court","description":"A fast, frightening, and thrillingly contemporary novel about marriage and money that early reviewers are calling “powerful” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review), “propulsive” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), “totally addictive” (\u003ci\u003eBookish\u003c\/i\u003e), and “a novel of unrelenting tension” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory. It comes to us from Joe McGinniss Jr., whose first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Delivery Man\u003c\/i\u003e, was a national bestseller that critics hailed as “searing” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), “compelling” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), and “reminiscent of Joan Didion” (Janet Fitch). Now, after spending the better part of a decade at work, McGinniss returns with another viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of modern life, this time through the lens of marriage.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarousel Court \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of Nick and Phoebe Maguire, a young couple who move cross-country to Southern California in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son following a trauma. But they arrive at the worst possible economic time. Instead of landing in a beachside property, Nick and Phoebe find themselves cemented into the dark heart of foreclosure alley, surrounded by neighbors being drowned by their underwater homes who set fire to their belongings, flee in the dead of night, and eye one another with suspicion while keeping shotguns by their beds. Trapped, broke, and increasingly desperate, Nick and Phoebe each devise their own plan to claw their way back into the middle class and beyond. Hatched under one roof, their two separate, secret agendas will inevitably collide.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCombining the excruciating honesty of Richard Yates’s \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Road \u003c\/i\u003ewith the social urgency of George Packer’s \u003ci\u003eThe Unwinding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCarousel Court \u003c\/i\u003eis a blistering and unforgettable vision of contemporary life. It has the ambition of our most serious literary work and the soul of a thriller, managing to be simultaneously sexy, scary, and powerfully moving. Most of all, it offers an unflinching portrait of modern marriage in a nation scarred by vanished jobs, abandoned homes, psychotropic cure-alls, infidelity via iPhone, and ruthless choices. No matter what kind of relationship you are in, it will leave you simultaneously gutted and grateful for your own good fortune—if perhaps curious what your partner is really up to on that electronic device across the living room.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347355017520,"sku":"BDbx9z","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/165665-bx9z-Square.jpg?v=1734202622","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bx9z","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}