{"product_id":"gallo-alexander-sammartino-9781668074374","title":"Gallo","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLast Acts \u003c\/i\u003ecomes an elegant, hilarious redemption story in which our everyman hero, the aging professional bodybuilder Tom Gallo (the eleventh best bodybuilder in the world, he would clarify), plunges down a destructive path for a last shot at perfection.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"While many novelists are struggling to figure out how best to address the state of the nation--centerless, ridiculous, and terrifying, doomed yet trivial, dire yet unheroic--Sammartino seems to have cracked the code.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVeteran professional bodybuilder Tom Gallo still believes he can win it all. But his family disagrees. Yes: his wife, Lisa, and his sister, Debbie, have seen enough of his \"art,\" and everyone is eager for the oft-injured, forty-something hustler to retire from the stage for good. But when a younger pro dies, Gallo gets the call to take his spot in the contest that will finally change his life--just not in the way he was hoping. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eGallo \u003c\/i\u003eis an ode to the great literary portraits, in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eStoner \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Ivan Illych\u003c\/i\u003e. Set in the suburban desert of Phoenix, Arizona, this distinctly American novel--both heartbreaking and absurd--is about ambition, addiction, faith, family, and mortality, and it marks the latest achievement by an extraordinary new talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Sammartino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1668074370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668074374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.67d","brand":"Alexander Sammartino","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48871424590079,"sku":"9781668074374","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gallo-alexander-sammartino-9781668074374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}