{"product_id":"i-make-envy-on-your-disco-9781496239013","title":"I Make Envy on Your Disco","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A funny and moving debut.\"--Charles Arrowsmith, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A love letter to Berlin, to travel, and to saying yes to life.\"--Alan Cumming\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the past is everywhere: the graffiti-stained streets, the candlelit caf?s and techno clubs, the astonishing mash-up of architecture, monuments, and memorials. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A trip that begins in isolation evolves into one of deep connection and possibility. In an intensely concentrated series of days, Sam finds himself awash in the city, stretched in limbo between his own past and future--in nightclubs with Jeremy, a lonely wannabe DJ; navigating a flirtation with Kaspar, an East Berlin artist he meets at a caf?; and engaged in a budding relationship with Magda, the enigmatic and icy manager of Sam's hotel, whom Sam finds himself drawn to and determined to thaw. \u003ci\u003eI Make Envy on Your Disco\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a tribute to Berlin, a novel of longing and connection, and a coming-of-middle-age story about confronting the person you were and becoming the person you want to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Schnall\u003c\/b\u003e has worked on and off Broadway as a producer and marketing director for more than twenty-five years. He won a Tony Award for the Broadway revival of \u003ci\u003eHedwig and the Angry Inch\u003c\/i\u003e and a Lucille Lortel Award for \u003ci\u003eFleabag\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written about techno and electronic music for \u003ci\u003eBillboard\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRevolution\u003c\/i\u003e, profiling DJs and musicians from around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50600364441874,"sku":"9781496239013","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f6d57ea-af39-4ea6-849b-862eb61aa755.jpg?v=1732212517","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-make-envy-on-your-disco-9781496239013","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}