{"product_id":"the-map-and-the-territory","title":"The Map and the Territory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opusabout art and money  love and friendship and death  fathers and sons.  The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist  Jed Martin  and his family and lovers and friends  the arc of his entire history rendered with sharp humor and powerful compassion. His earliest photographs  of countless industrial objects  were followed by a surprisingly successful series featuring Michelin road maps  which also happened to bring him the love of his life  Olga  a beautiful Russian workingfor a timein Paris. But global fame and fortune arrive when he turns to painting and produces a host of portraits that capture a wide range of professions  from the commonplace (the owner of a local bar) to the autobiographical (his father  an accomplished architect) and from the celebrated (Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Discussing the Future of Information Technology) to the literary (a writer named Houellebecq  with whom he develops an unusually close relationship).  Then  while his aging father (his only living relative) flirts with oblivion  a police inspector seeks Martins help in solving an unspeakably gruesome crimeevents that prove profoundly unsettling. Even so  now growing old himself  Jed Martin somehow discovers serenity and manages to add another startling chapter to his artistic legacy  a deeply moving conclusion to this saga of hopes and losses and dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44954844004405,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307701557","price":59.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307701558.jpg?v=1770551043","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-map-and-the-territory","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}