{"product_id":"into-the-great-wide-open-9780679776529","title":"Into the Great Wide Open","description":"Building on the success of \u003ci\u003eA Stranger in This World\u003c\/i\u003e, the widely praised collection of stories that was one of the most exciting literary debuts of recent years, Kevin Canty has written a blistering, unforgettable first novel. Set in the sprawl of suburbia, with its shattered families and hollow lives, Into the Great Wide Open is the story of two young people fleeing their families' emotional abandonment to find refuge in each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSmart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson. Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality--and a capacity for caring--he has not known before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose startling for its diamond-hard edges and bravura lyricism, Kevin Canty revives the heady carnival of adolescence, evoking its confusing emotional landscape and its heightened sensuality, too soon lost. Into the Great Wide Open is a haunting, mesmerizing novel by a writer of deep sensitivity and undeniable talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Canty\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of the novels \u003ci\u003eInto the Great Wide Open\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNine Below Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Winslow in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the short story collections \u003ci\u003eHoneymoon and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Stranger in This World, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Money Went\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld: A Novel, \u003c\/i\u003e published in 2017. His work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently teaches fiction writing at the University of Montana.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844912746770,"sku":"9780679776529","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b6b809b5-e7e1-482b-b56a-4025b5c3f6ce.jpg?v=1737336373","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/into-the-great-wide-open-9780679776529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}