{"product_id":"times-a-thief-9781101974131","title":"Times a Thief","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the mid-1980s in gritty, vibrant New York City when Francesca “Chess” Varani strikes up a volatile friendship with drama-queen classmate Kendra Marr-Löwenstein. Drawn into the orbit of Kendra’s Salingeresque family, Chess moves into their Greenwich Village home when she graduates from Barnard and takes a job assisting the infamous literary intellectual Clarice Marr. There she receives the sentimental education and emotional roughing up New York bestows on all its young hopefuls—including a doomed love affair with Clarice’s troubled son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrating her story twenty years on, from the winter of the 2008 financial crisis, a sadder but wiser Chess evokes her youth with all the poignancy of time passing—and all the weight of choices made and not made.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528806277463,"sku":"9781101974131","price":12.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781101974131.jpg?v=1731873085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/times-a-thief-9781101974131","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}