{"product_id":"half-his-age-9798217346899","title":"Half His Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eI'm Glad My Mom Died\u003c\/i\u003e comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we'll go to in order to get what we want.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWaldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn't? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it's just enough that he sees her when no one else does. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStartlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, \u003ci\u003eHalf His Age\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles--in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennette McCurdy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eI'm Glad My Mom Died\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2023 American Library Association Alex Award. The book is a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, spending more than eighty weeks on the list. It has been published in more than thirty countries and has sold more than three million copies. McCurdy is creating, writing, executive producing, directing, and showrunning an Apple TV+ series loosely inspired by \u003ci\u003eI'm Glad My Mom Died\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Jennifer Aniston. \u003ci\u003eHalf His Age\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Large Print Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890702450962,"sku":"9798217346899","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8311ab64-7294-4c88-835f-9ee07fd5011c.jpg?v=1768316008","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/half-his-age-9798217346899","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}