{"product_id":"you-have-a-friend-in-10a-stories-paperback","title":"You Have a Friend in 10a: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaggie Shipstead\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker Prize nominee and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGreat Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, a piercing, irresistible, \"immersive\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man's deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover. A couple's Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry, and, in the mesmerizing title story, a former child actress breaks with her life in a Hollywood cult. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these and other stories, knockout after knockout, Maggie Shipstead delivers another \"extraordinary\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) work of fiction and seals her reputation as a writer of \"breathtaking range and skill\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e). Rich in imagination and dazzling in its shapeshifting style, \u003ci\u003eYou Have a Friend in 10A\u003c\/i\u003e excavates the complexities of love, sex, and life in ways unsparing and hilarious, sharp-eyed and tender.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAGGIE SHIPSTEAD is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of three novels and a short story collection. Her novel \u003ci\u003eGreat Circle\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is currently a finalist for the Women's Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.6 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170837598343,"sku":"9781984897718","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/42ef2e6e1294a349e5a88a6d7117ed86.webp?v=1733351048","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/you-have-a-friend-in-10a-stories-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}