{"product_id":"9780008308933","title":"Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen","description":"`His best novel yet . A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph `A pleasure bomb of a novel' Vogue `A true modern master' Independent It's 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents - Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife - tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing. `Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have' Financial Times `Intoxicating - a luxuriant domestic drama' Guardian THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021  AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR  A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR  A LIT HUB BOOK OF THE YEAR","brand":"Jonathan Franzen","offers":[{"title":"592 pages \/ 04\/10\/2022 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56965108990327,"sku":"9780008308933","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780008308933_86cc57ff-bea1-4ce6-b1f6-889bf731ef93.jpg?v=1780923608","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780008308933","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}