{"product_id":"in-tongues-1","title":"In Tongues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon - handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction - takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Philip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him - and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA lush, heart-quickening novel about family and art, sex and class, and the terror of self-discovery, Thomas Grattan’s \u003cem\u003eIn Tongues\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles Gordon’s perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to New York and, later, to Europe and Mexico City. As he floats further into Philip and Nicola’s exclusive universe, and as lines blur between employee, muse, lover, and mentor, Gordon’s charm, manipulations, and growing ambition begin to escape his own control, in turn threatening to unravel the lives, and lies, of those around him. Anchored by winsome lyricism, glinting intellect, and a main character whose yearnings and mistakes come to feel like our own, \u003cem\u003eIn Tongues\u003c\/em\u003e crackles with fierce longing and pointed emotion, further confirming Thomas Grattan as a rare chronicler of young adulthood’s joys and devastations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003ePages: 288\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 125039046X\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781250390462\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Grattan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51611664810250,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781250390462.jpg?v=1754649537","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/in-tongues-1","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}