{"product_id":"the-great-mistake-9780593081013","title":"The Great Mistake","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder--\"engrossing\" (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), \"immersive\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), and \"seriously entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times, \u003c\/i\u003e London).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing--on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth--shook the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Mistake \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him--yet enlarged it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJONATHAN LEE is the author of three novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eHigh Dive, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a best book of the year in publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the editor-in-chief of indie publisher Catapult. He lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50387951780114,"sku":"9780593081013","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_11dbbf06-ff86-4f1e-b4b3-6afc0859db76.jpg?v=1728884708","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-mistake-9780593081013","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}