{"product_id":"9780008308933","title":"Crossroads","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Franzen, Jonathan \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/10\/2022,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 592 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008308933,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘His best novel yet … A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A pleasure bomb of a novel’ Vogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A true modern master’ Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents – Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife – tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have’ Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Intoxicating – a luxuriant domestic drama’ Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 • AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR • A LIT HUB BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40539374845996,"sku":"9780008308933","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008308933.jpg?v=1759673749","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008308933","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}