{"product_id":"down-time-andrew-martin-9781250468734","title":"Down Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA terribly funny and lovably louche novel about five friends growing older, if not always up, from Andrew Martin, author of \u003ci\u003eEarly Work\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCool for America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout Cassandra, Aaron would probably be dead. Fortunately, she won't leave him--despite the drinking, flirting, solipsism, armchair socialism, overspending, infidelity, catastrophic depression, and disparate but increasingly frequent spells of drug- and booze-addled debauchery. Unfortunately, she might be reaching the end of her rope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCass and Aaron, like the other neurotic, ambivalent intellectuals in their orbit, are getting older. There's Malcolm, with his own alcoholism and marginally more successful writing career; his partner, Violet, a doctor with little patience for either; Antonia, a teaching fellow whose book about ecocide may get her tenure at a prestigious university near Harvard Square--yes, that one. When Sam, a charming trust-fund punk at the center of this loose network, dies suddenly and a global pandemic takes hold, all five must contend with the lives they've made: their desires and disappointments, habits and hang-ups, pathologies and addictions, and the possibilities of making art and being good as the earth whirls to its end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDown Time\u003c\/i\u003e marks the delightful return of Andrew Martin, the author of the pitch-perfect slacker classics \u003ci\u003eEarly Work\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCool for America\u003c\/i\u003e. Compulsively readable and contagiously intelligent, this is a wryly comic novel of settling down, selling out, growing up, and getting out that turns a terrifically funny and hyperliterate eye on our most desperately guarded ambitions: to love and be loved, to know and be known, to stay sane, if only just.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250468736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250468734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Andrew Martin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623658434815,"sku":"9781250468734","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/down-time-andrew-martin-9781250468734","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}