{"product_id":"american-appetites-9780062269232","title":"American Appetites","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Appetites\u003c\/em\u003e is classic Joyce Carol Oates--a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor twenty-six years, Ian McCullough, a demographics researcher at a social science think tank, has been happily married to Glynnis, a successful cookbook writer and a brilliant hostess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a drunken argument about a suspected infidelity turns physical, Ian accidentally pushes Glynnis through a plate glass window--or did she fall? Now, Glynnis is dead, Ian is charged with murder, and their American dream is shattered. And soon, in a courtroom where guilt and responsibility become two very separate issues, Ian will stand trial, fighting for his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sophisticated, witty, and chilling novel from the incomparable Joyce Carol Oates, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Appetites\u003c\/em\u003e explores our insatiable hunger for power, love, and success, and how comfortable, privileged lives--and the course of fate--can be dramatically transformed in an instant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOates, Joyce Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844010283282,"sku":"9780062269232","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2e4cfe57-bf62-4976-922c-2915b4a26c65.jpg?v=1737306826","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/american-appetites-9780062269232","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}