{"product_id":"keeping-a-straight-face-robert-maclean-9798404466140","title":"Keeping a Straight Face: Three Rick Coyne Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ROMANTIC GRUDGE MATCH: \u003cbr\u003eWhen Rick, a writer with a million-dollar advance on his novel \u003cem\u003eThe Understated Stud\u003c\/em\u003e, tries to pick up a woman at the Park Plaza bar, she pretends to be brain-damaged and puts him on.\u003cbr\u003eUpstairs at the book launch she turns out to be a journalist. They trade insults on camera, he wins, and she's fired.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e hires her to sleep with the \"Stud\" and write an article on it, and the two begin a contest that involves New York society and the writer's estranged young son.\u003cbr\u003eShe gets him into bed and publishes a humiliating report on the encounter, and he can save his career only by marrying her.\u003cbr\u003eHah! Fat chance! But then \u003cem\u003eshe's\u003c\/em\u003e offered a book deal as big as his and has to go through with it....\u003cbr\u003eIn SEX AND LOVE he's a teenager struggling with same. Later, IN THE CLUTCHES OF ART, he's a struggling writer, struggling with same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert MacLean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798404466140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Robert MacLean","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48851496501503,"sku":"9798404466140","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/keeping-a-straight-face-robert-maclean-9798404466140","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}