{"product_id":"on-green-dolphin-street-9780375704567","title":"On Green Dolphin Street","description":"The bestselling author of \u003cb\u003eBirdsong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Gray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edelivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFaulks' heroine is Mary Van der Linden, a pretty, reserved Englishwoman whose husband, Charlie, is posted to the British embassy in Washington. One night at a cocktail party Mary meets Frank Renzo, a reporter who has covered stories from the fall of Dienbienphu to the Emmett Till murder trial in Mississippi. Slowly, reluctantly, they fall in love. Their ensuing affair, in all its desperate elation, plays out against a backdrop that ranges from the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village to the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy campaign. A romance in the grand tradition that is also a neon-lit portrait of America at its apogee, \u003cb\u003eOn Green Dolphin Street\u003c\/b\u003e is Sebastian Faulks at the peak of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSebastian Faulks is best known for his trilogy of novels set in France: \u003cb\u003eThe Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Gray\u003c\/b\u003e, the latter two of which were bestsellers. After a period in France, he and his family now live in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923976491282,"sku":"9780375704567","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_470bb487-e63e-437a-b397-1486b997c819.jpg?v=1738966833","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-green-dolphin-street-9780375704567","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}