{"product_id":"carousel-court-9781476791296","title":"Carousel Court","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis coming soon.......\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Indie Next Selection of Independent Booksellers \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine’s “8 Books You Need to Read This August”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eUSA Today’s \u003c\/i\u003e“Hottest Books” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eMen’s Journal\u003c\/i\u003e’s “Best Books of August”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e’ “Most Anticipated Books of the Year”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “A fearless novel about a family and a society on the brink . . . Harrowing but, against all odds, ultimately tender . . . [Nick and Phoebe] offer the possibility of a simple but enormous grace: that we may fail and still be loved, if only imperfectly, if only for a time.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Propulsive . . . \u003ci\u003eCarousel Court\u003c\/i\u003e is a raw, close-up portrait of a married couple tormented by money problems in the midst of a national recession. . . . The result is thrilling and uncomfortable—a novel that dwells in the filth of love and hate and blame and money in post-crash America with an intimacy that never lets up. . . . The marriage starts to feel not just tense but enormously dangerous. . . . It’s very hard to look away.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fast . . . Foreboding . . . This couple will stop at nothing to keep their house and marriage afloat. . . . McGinniss spins an edgy tale, often laced with a reporter’s eye for the little details that make characters pop and convey a sarcastic take on what a certain slice of people need nowadays to feel uplifted: anti-anxiety pills, yes, but also the produce section of Whole Foods, where Phoebe has spent so much time that she’s learned ‘the fine mist showering the mustard greens, arugula, and summer squash is on a forty-second cycle—ten seconds on, thirty seconds off.’”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McGinniss is poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the 21st century. . . . Watching things get ugly for Nick and Phoebe is riveting. . . . What makes the reader turn the pages of \u003ci\u003eCarousel Court\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t the tragedy that befalls Nick and Phoebe—it’s the threat of tragedy. The couple and their toddler are skating on the edge of a razor blade and the reader is hooked by their struggle to put their lives back together.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarousel Court\u003c\/i\u003e is a gritty, raw novel that will have readers recalling the icy relationships found in Gillian Flynn’s \u003ci\u003eGone Girl \u003c\/i\u003eand Adam Ross’s \u003ci\u003eMr. Peanut\u003c\/i\u003e. McGinniss’s work is built on layers of tension and dark turns that, at times, surpass the twisted works of his contemporaries. . . . McGinniss deserves a lot of credit for handling the darkness so well. He never seems to overdo it. When he gets close to the edge, he adds in just the right amount of humor.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A novel of unrelenting tension . . . Phoebe is a lexicon of contradictions, a kind of update on Maria Wyeth of Joan Didion’s \u003ci\u003ePlay It as It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e. McGinniss also recalls Nathanael West’s \u003ci\u003eDay of the Locust\u003c\/i\u003e in depicting their road, Carousel Court, as a catalog of strangeness and dangers: from coyotes and marauding home invaders to weird neighbors and crying, screaming cicadas. McGinniss . . . injects it with an urgency, a sense of constant, inescapable threat that all adds up to a taut page-turner.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful . . . May have some readers recalling Yeats’ poem ‘The Second Coming.’ ”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Propulsive . . . The novel’s nearly 100 vignettes—many of them gems of concision and electric prose that lay bare the darker sides of Nick and Phoebe, as well as the handful of coworkers and eccentric neighbors who swirl down the drain with them—mirror the discontent seething just beneath the surface of an ersatz American dream. . . . McGinniss is at his best when describing, with anthropological intensity, the throes of a broken relationship.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Totally addictive.”\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBookish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gripping . . . A portrait of a marriage as volatile as the economy.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McGinniss writes with a keen feel for the contemporary zeitgeist. . . . His characters in \u003ci\u003eCarousel Court\u003c\/i\u003e move in a brutal world of broken personal connections, social unrest, and financial desperation. . . . Yet McGinniss opens a window of hope as Nick and Phoebe survive the mess they make of their lives.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here it is, the leveraged, frayed, unfaithful, buzzed America that all the baloney entertainment products, including a lot that pose as literature, are designed to cover up. Can you handle the truth? Then step inside. This scathing novel of our strange new century is like nothing else I’ve read in years.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Walter Kirn, author of \u003ci\u003eUp in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harrowing, smart, wickedly accurate about the third world of the contemporary United States, and very well written.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Lionel Shriver, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Need to Talk about Kevin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCarousel Court\u003c\/i\u003e showcases a domestic circus of the most compelling kind: a kaleidoscopic train-wreck of a marriage set ablaze by the bright white hyperreality of a California suburb in decline. Joe McGinniss Jr. writes with wit and scorching honesty about adultery, addiction, and financial ruin, never losing sight of his characters’ humanity and their fractured hope that redemption might be possible after all.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Carolyn Parkhurst, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dogs of Babel \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLost and Found\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCarousel Court\u003c\/i\u003e pulls no punches, taking on nothing less than marriage, and the false promises of our American Dream. These are great big subjects and Joe McGinniss Jr. is more than up to them. Mature and smart and in control of his arsenal, he writes tenderly about family and parenthood, and is every bit as clear-eyed when the subject is underwater mortgages or secret sexting. The result is a hell of a roller coaster. Strap yourself.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Charles Bock, author of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In urgent, kaleidoscopic prose, Joe McGinniss Jr. diagnoses the American Dream with a high fever, jaundice, and severe heartburn. Set in a simmering suburban Los Angeles, \u003ci\u003eCarousel Court\u003c\/i\u003e is the portrait of a disastrous but thoroughly modern marriage whose young wife, Phoebe Maguire, is hurtling toward a pill-fueled implosion that’s impossible to look away from. The pitch-perfect ending reverberates like a handbell after a hurricane.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Kate Christensen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530726449495,"sku":"9781476791296","price":13.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476791296.jpg?v=1731880317","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/carousel-court-9781476791296","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}