{"product_id":"book-kqv0","title":"The Spoils","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"THE SPOILS is a glorious meditation on failure, missed opportunities, and making your own wins. It's about art and beauty and athleticism and other people's wives...Colin Thompson has written an unapologetic and unforgettable narrator: he's lovable and wrongheaded, frenetic and full of restless exuberance. He's scathingly funny and outrageously inappropriate, a guy with a good heart who can't catch a break.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Kimberly King Parsons (author of \u003cem\u003eBlacklight \u003c\/em\u003e\u0026amp; \u003cem\u003eWe Were The Universe\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenice, California. 2014. Ryan Wilson, a once hopeful aspiring screenwriter is transitioning to hopelessness. The clock, the bank, the zodiac-they all point toward the exit door of this creative dream. Hapless and broke at 31-years-old, he finds himself one more sandbag for the hourglass, taking a job coaching middle school lacrosse in the affluent neighborhood of Brentwood. In a town and entertainment industry built on connections, a pool of wealthy parents is a great place to look for a guy with everything to gain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd as luck would have it, a connection reveals itself: Camilla Emerson Tourney, the wife of his Hollywood Hero, writer\/director heavyweight Buck Tourney. Trapped in a crisis of her own-hers of apathy and routine-the attraction is immediate but fraught: is he just some sort of slum crush? A dive-bar holiday for a bored Hollywood Aristocrat? And what about him? Is she only magnetic because of who her husband is? If they met in Denver would he feel the same?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt times and at turns warped with polemic introspection, \u003cem\u003eThe Spoils\u003c\/em\u003e is a ride through the looking glass of the young American Man. Neurotic, hedonistic, sensitive and tawdry, Ryan Wilson takes us along as he sailor dives into the murky waters of adulthood: the battlefield of infidelity and integrity, drive and success, love, status, and the ruthlessness of trying to make it in Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49638142312752,"sku":"BDkqv0","price":11.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/kqv0-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773630298","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-kqv0","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}