{"product_id":"9780063464308","title":"Good Company: 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=\"\"\u003eChristensen, Kate\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\u003eHarper Perennial\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\u003e6\/15\/2027\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\u003cb\u003e“Caustic.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003eHighbrow Brilliant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A ninja takedown of toxic literary hypocrisy”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the brilliant Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Great Man\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a compelling, searing novel about women, sex, power, and self-reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver since her father broke her heart when she was nine, Julia Heimdahl has tried to be good company for bad men: A jovial drinking companion; an easygoing, witty noncomplainer; one of the boys. Now a literary novelist in late middle age and late mid-career, she is at a moment of crisis, although she doesn’t know it yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel takes place over the course of a weekend-long book festival at Baldwin College, which happens to be Julia’s alma mater, where she has come to promote her recently published memoir. She’s been placed on a panel with a fellow memoirist named Ellis Blackwell, a man so outrageously flirtatious and fawningly flattering that Julia is almost too disarmed to recognize how dangerous he is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving excerpts from Julia’s memoir with her encounters with important people from her past—the woman she had a crush on in college, her old New York mentor, her editor, her literary nemesis, a former graduate student—\u003ci\u003eGood Company\u003c\/i\u003e examines what it really means to be “good company” as Julia faces her demons and comes to terms with what she truly wants from sex, life, and work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49212916891903,"sku":"9780063464308","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780063464308","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}