{"product_id":"tuesday-nights-in-1980-9781501121050","title":"Tuesday Nights in 1980","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An intoxicating Manhattan fairy tale...As affecting as it is absorbing. A thrilling debut.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A vital, sensuous, edgy, and suspenseful tale of longing, rage, fear, compulsion, and love.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way--and ultimately collide--amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason--a small town beauty and Raul's muse--and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they've lost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As inventive as Jennifer Egan's \u003ci\u003eA Visit From The Goon Squad \u003c\/i\u003eand as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Tuesday Nights in 1980\u003c\/i\u003e boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-9769535\"\u003eMolly Prentiss\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallery\/Scout Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501121050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501121057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC048000\"\u003eUrban \u0026amp; Street Lit\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gallery\/Scout Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42681939951853,"sku":"9781501121050","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_c5fbc4c6-2176-4cd4-8210-77212b462ba6.jpg?v=1649713835","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/tuesday-nights-in-1980-9781501121050","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}