{"product_id":"groundskeeping-an-extraordinary-debut-ann-patchett","title":"Groundskeeping : 'An extraordinary debut' ANN PATCHETT","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Cole, Lee \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/01\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 448 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780571371082,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully textured ... Anne Tyler by way of Sally Rooney.' New York Times'A coming-of-age story inextricably bound with a love story.' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD'Smart, funny, exhilarating.' LILY KINGEager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their writing course.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's there that he meets Alma, a Writer-in-Residence, who seems to have everything Owen doesn't - a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, and published success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma, from a supportive, liberal family of Bosnian immigrants, struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with his own family and home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the boundaries between life and art, and how our upbringings affect the people we can become, Groundskeeping is at heart a love story - a novel about two very different people navigating the turbulence of an all-consuming relationship, and the complications which can ruin it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43104844742700,"sku":"9780571371082","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780571371082.jpg?v=1713017012","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/groundskeeping-an-extraordinary-debut-ann-patchett","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}