{"product_id":"particles-and-luck-louis-b-jones-9780679745990","title":"Particles and Luck","description":"Mark Perdue and Roger Hoberman have nothing in common--except the joy of adjoining yards. Mark is a whiz-kid physicist who knows that his \"genius\" stature and his endowed chair at Berkeley are bits of dumb luck; Roger is the owner of a pizza franchise whose luck has turned dumb--in financial and marital distress, he has been denied child visitation rights but not babysitting obligations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now luck, in the form of an adverse claim on their property, brings Mark and Roger together for a fateful Halloween night neither of them will ever forget. Loony, humane, and transcendently wise, \u003cb\u003eParticles and Luck\u003c\/b\u003e is an irresistible comedy of manners and epistemology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A lovely and invigorating novel . . . a domestic farce and social satire. Jones writes [an] engaging novelistic equivalent of a unified field theory--in this case, a link between the human heart and the behavior of subatomic particles.\"--Richard Eder, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Jones is the real thing--a writer with something to say and his own way of saying it.\"--Scott Turow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louis B. Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679745998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679745990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.48w x 0.80d","brand":"Louis B. Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48621765558527,"sku":"9780679745990","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/particles-and-luck-louis-b-jones-9780679745990","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}