{"product_id":"the-age-of-anxiety-9780316399005","title":"The Age of Anxiety","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions.\u003cbr\u003eAn art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found.\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful Irish girl who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend's husband.\u003cbr\u003eA young composer begins to experience aural hallucinations, expressions of the fear and anxiety of the people of London. He constructs a maze in his back garden.\u003cbr\u003eDriven by passion and musical ambition, events spiral out of control -- good drugs and bad drugs, loves lost and found, families broken apart and reunited. Conceived jointly as an opera, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Anxiety \u003c\/i\u003edeals with mythic and operatic themes. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel in an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePete Townshend\u003c\/b\u003e is the lead guitarist and principal songwriter of The Who -- one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide -- and the composer of the rock operas \u003ci\u003eTommy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQuadrophenia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50438269698322,"sku":"9780316399005","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6872f6d3-cb00-4c6e-b9ce-7f3d2da13553.jpg?v=1729649638","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-age-of-anxiety-9780316399005","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}