{"product_id":"blue-ruin","title":"Blue Ruin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, power, and capitals influence on art and those who devote their lives to creating it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career already taking shape before him. Now, undocumented in the United States, he lives out of his car and makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pandemic is still at its height--the greater public panicked in quarantine--and though he has returned to work, Jay hasnt recovered from the effects of a recent Covid case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Jay arrives at a house set in an enormous acreage of woodland, he finds the last person he ever expected to see again: Alice, a former lover from his art school days. Their relationship was tumultuous and destructive, ultimately ending when she ghosted him and left for America with his best friend and fellow artist, Rob.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the twenty years since, their fortunes could not be more different: as Jay teeters on the edge of collapse, Alice and Rob have found prosperity in a life surrounded by beauty. Ashamed, Jay hopes she wont recognize him behind his dirty surgical mask; when she does, she invites him to recover on the property--where an erratic gallery owner and his girlfriend are isolating as well--setting a reckoning decades in the making into motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGripping and brilliantly orchestrated,\u003ci\u003eBlue Ruin\u003c\/i\u003emoves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Oversized paperback \u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner UK\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781398532748\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1398532746\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Hari Kunzru","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49181211230474,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781398532748.jpg?v=1718282104","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/blue-ruin","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}