{"product_id":"9780062984418","title":"Nine Shiny Objects: A Novel","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eCastleberry, Brian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era, while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential.\" - Jenny Offill, author of \u003cem\u003eDepartment of Speculation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWeather\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA luminous debut novel in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the eerily intersecting lives of a series of American dreamers\u003cbr\u003ewhose unforeseen links reveal the divided heart of a haunted nation—and the battered\u003cbr\u003egrace that might lead to its salvation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine\u003cbr\u003epulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any\u003cbr\u003eaircraft. In Chicago, inspired by the news, Oliver Danville, a failed actor now\u003cbr\u003ereduced to a mediocre pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for\u003cbr\u003ea possible sign from above that might illuminate his true calling. A chance\u003cbr\u003eencounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, and his family sets in motion the\u003cbr\u003ebirth of “the Seekers”—a collective of outcasts, interlopers, and idealists devoted\u003cbr\u003eto creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a\u003cbr\u003ething of the past. When Claudette Donen, a waitress on the lam from her\u003cbr\u003esuffocating family, encounters the group, she is compulsively drawn to Oliver’s\u003cbr\u003esister Eileen, but before she is able to join the enigmatic community, it has\u003cbr\u003evanished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReunited across the country, the Seekers attempt to settle in the\u003cbr\u003esuburbs of Long Island. One night, their purpose suddenly revealed, a stranger emerges,\u003cbr\u003eand a horrific crime ensues. In the decades that follow, the perpetrators,\u003cbr\u003esurvivors, and their children will be forced to face the consequences of what\u003cbr\u003ehappened—a reckoning that will involve Charlie Ranagan, a traveling salesman; Max\u003cbr\u003eFelt, a dissolute late-1960s rock star; Alice Linwood, an increasingly paranoid\u003cbr\u003eradio host; Stanley West, a struggling African American poet; Marly Feldberg, a\u003cbr\u003eGreenwich Village painter; and Debbie Vasquez, a Connecticut teenager trapped\u003cbr\u003eby an avalanche of midnight legacies. Each will prove to be a piece of a puzzle\u003cbr\u003ethat, when assembled, reveals a shocking truth about the clash between the\u003cbr\u003eoptimism of those who seek inspiration from spacious skies, and the venom of\u003cbr\u003eothers who relish the underworld—not only via conspiratorial maneuverings, but the\u003cbr\u003eliteral unearthing of the dead. The result is one of the most exciting, and\u003cbr\u003eunforgettable, debut novels in recent memory, and the launch of a major career\u003cbr\u003ein American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46859245355263,"sku":"9780062984418","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780062984418_s600x595.jpg?v=1780334424","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780062984418","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}