{"product_id":"america-fantastica-9780063318502","title":"America Fantastica","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn American Master returns: The author of \u003cem\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/em\u003e delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by shameless delusion and deceit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in northern California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How much is on hand, would you say?\" he asked the teller. \"I'll want it all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You're robbing me?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not \u003cem\u003eyou, \u003c\/em\u003e\" Boyd replied, revealing a Temptation .38 Special.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngie Bing, the teller, scraped together $81,000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag. \"I'm sorry about this,\" he said, \"but I'll have to ask you to take a ride with me. ...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson--star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JC Penny manager--and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday Boyd and Angie reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd's past. Everyone, it seems, except the police. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerica Fantastica \u003c\/em\u003emarks the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. Just as O'Brien's modern classic, \u003cem\u003eThe Things They Carried, \u003c\/em\u003eso brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, \u003cem\u003eAmerica Fantastica \u003c\/em\u003eputs a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063318502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023 pg. 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tim O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43103741018293,"sku":"9780063318502","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2f0092f1-29ab-4ab8-aaa2-4983ee041f51.jpg?v=1693279088","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/america-fantastica-9780063318502","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}