{"product_id":"lunar-park-9780375412912","title":"Lunar Park","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine becoming a best-selling novelist  and almost immediately famous and wealthy  while still in college  and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box  while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification  booze  and drugs.  Then imagine having a second chance ten years later  as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given  with a wife  children  and suburban sobrietyonly to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late fathers  his stepdaughters doll violently malfunctions  and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver eventsa series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his sons ageEllis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife  their therapists  and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.  Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another  passing through comedy and mounting horror  both psychological and supernatural  toward an astonishing resolutionabout love and loss  fathers and sonsin what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789867180085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375412913","price":35.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375412912.jpg?v=1784701476","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lunar-park-9780375412912","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}