{"product_id":"worlds-end-9780140299939","title":"World's End","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD - In this stunning novel, one man traces the tangled histories of three very different families--from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tortilla Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Boyle has emerged as one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to have a collision with history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt will lead Walter to search for his lost father. And it will send the story into the past of the Hudson River Valley, from the 1960s back to the anticommunist riots of the 1940s to the late seventeenth century, where the long-hidden secrets of three families--the aristocratic Van Warts, the Native American Mohonks, and Walter's own ancestors, the Van Brunts--will be revealed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including \u003cb\u003eWorld's End\u003c\/b\u003e (winner of the PEN\/FaulknerAward), \u003cb\u003eDrop City\u003c\/b\u003e (a \u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and \u003cb\u003eThe Inner Circle\u003c\/b\u003e. His most recent story collections are \u003cb\u003eTooth and Claw\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Human Fly and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459938062610,"sku":"9780140299939","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10d80cfc-0e94-436f-8cbd-1e141076b4cc.jpg?v=1730016613","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/worlds-end-9780140299939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}