{"product_id":"white-birch-paul-edmund-lessard-9781639882052","title":"White Birch","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly humorous novel about the trappings of generational wealth and the human cost of ambition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe White Birch Hotel in the city of Tuffty Town teems with poorly kept secrets: exiled governments negotiating banished royals and messy revolutions; detectives tapping phones and trailing spies; paramours leaving tell-tale signs of furtive assignations in unlocked suites; captains of finance hatching plans in the grey haze of the smoking bar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe find among this clamour Henry Huvvy: bon vivant, boulevardier, and mainstay of milieus both refined and ragtag. But when the lure of unattainable love drives him to build, with questionable tactics, a new empire of opulence, the fate of an erstwhile princess is set against his own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite Birch introduces a vividly rendered cast of characters into a world at once familiar and delightfully uncanny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Edmund Lessard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639882057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639882052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atmosphere Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Paul Edmund Lessard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996647653631,"sku":"9781639882052","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7a78da8-d883-4c25-b476-b607b7bac640.jpg?v=1683342885","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-birch-paul-edmund-lessard-9781639882052","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}