{"product_id":"blue-ruin-9780593686980","title":"Blue Ruin","description":"\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, capital, art and those who devote their lives to creating it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was not to happen. Now, undocumented in the United States, having survived Covid, he lives out of his car and barely makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. One day, as Jay attempts to make a delivery at a house surrounded by acres of woods, he is confronted by his destructive past: Alice, a former lover from his art school days, and the friend she left him for. Recognizing Jay's dire circumstances, Alice invites him to stay on their property--where an erratic gallery owner and his girlfriend are isolating as well--setting in motion a reckoning that has been decades in the making. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGripping and brilliantly orchestrated, \u003ci\u003eBlue Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e moves back and forth through time, delivering an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHARI KUNZRU is the author of six novels, \u003ci\u003eRed Pill\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite Tears\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGods Without Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTransmission\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Impressionist\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, he is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and writes the \"Easy Chair\" column for \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51243791745298,"sku":"9780593686980","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_81afcf31-1323-4214-8857-f5a990fb1857.jpg?v=1745871564","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blue-ruin-9780593686980","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}