{"product_id":"the-future-future-9781250338297","title":"The Future Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. And meanwhile men are inventing stories about her--about her affairs, her sexuality, her orgies and addictions. All these stories are lies, but the public loves them and spreads them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a world of decadence and saturation, of lavish parties and private salons, of tulle and satin and sex and violence. It's also one ruled by men--high on colonial genocide, natural destruction, crimes against women, and, above all, language. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice, truth, and beauty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFantastical, funny, and blindingly bright, Adam Thirlwell's \u003ci\u003eThe Future Future\u003c\/i\u003e follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Thirlwell \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in London in 1978. He is the author of three previous novels, and his work has been translated into thirty languages. His essays appear in \u003ci\u003e-The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and he is an advisory editor of \u003ci\u003e-The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has twice been selected by \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e as one of its Best of Young British Novelists.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50894592704786,"sku":"9781250338297","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_44922b1d-c5c2-43ca-a981-816940bdfde5.jpg?v=1774449932","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-future-future-9781250338297","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}