{"product_id":"tuesday-nights-in-1980-paperback","title":"Tuesday Nights in 1980 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMolly Prentiss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMolly Prentiss is the author of \u003ci\u003eTuesday Nights in 1980\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and shortlisted for the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine in France. Her writing has been translated into multiple languages. She lives in Red Hook, New York, with her husband and daughter. You can find her at Molly-Prentiss.com or on Instagram @MollyPrentiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42116945870983,"sku":"9781501121050","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a00939eb617d8e237607351bf403717a.webp?v=1732520053","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/tuesday-nights-in-1980-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}