{"product_id":"meiselman-the-lean-years-9781948954143","title":"Meiselman: The Lean Years","description":"\u003cb\u003eMeiselman has had enough.\u003c\/b\u003e After a life spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man-\"number two\" at a suburban Chicago public library, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss-is looking to come out on top, at last. What seems like an ordinary week in 2004 will prove to be a golden opportunity (at least in his mind) to reverse a lifetime of petty humiliations. And no one-not his newly observant wife, not the Holocaust survivor neighbor who regularly disturbs his sleep with her late-night gardening, and certainly not the former-classmate-turned-renowned-author who's returning to the library for a triumphant literary homecoming-will stand in his way.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeiselman\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of comic escalation.\"\u003cb\u003e - Sam Lipsyte, author of \u003ci\u003eHark\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ask\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvner Landes earned an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and works as a ghostwriter. He grew up in Skokie, Illinois, in a family that came to Chicagoland in the early 1900s; he now lives near Tel Aviv with his wife and two children. \u003cbr\u003e Find him on Twitter: @AvnerLandes\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tortoise Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580173091090,"sku":"9781948954143","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b3038602-207a-4dab-9cee-18da28871406.jpg?v=1756209173","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/meiselman-the-lean-years-9781948954143","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}