{"product_id":"jernigan-9780679737131","title":"Jernigan","description":"From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his dangerously vulnerable mistress--and, not least of all, on himself. This novel is a bravura performance: a funny, scary, mesmerizing study of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open--wisecracking all the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Gates writes about books and music for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City and in a small town upstate.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412792381714,"sku":"9780679737131","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_36f65ffc-8822-4654-868d-377985ca743d.jpg?v=1729328430","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jernigan-9780679737131","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}