{"product_id":"buzz-aldrin-what-happened-to-you-in-all-the-confusion-9781609804114","title":"Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Fiction Title of 2011\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBuzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?\u003c\/i\u003e, readers follow a man who wishes not to be followed, a man who, after a series of personal and professional disasters, finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless Faroe Islands, population only a few thousand, a wad of bills in his pocket and no memory of how he had come to be there. From there, Brage Award-winning author and playwright Johan Harstad's debut novel--previously published to great success in eleven countries with its first English-language appearance in June 2011--tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon: the man who was willing to stand in Neil Armstrong's shadow in order to work, diligently and humbly, for the success of the Apollo 11 mission. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough Harstad's \"delectably light but nonetheless impactful prose . . . [t]he novel's finest moments wrap you up in communion with Mattias, as if you are spending a quiet afternoon with an old friend, chatting but mostly thinking\" (\u003ci\u003eThree Percent\u003c\/i\u003e). Surrounded by a vivid and memorable cast of characters--aspiring pop musicians, Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted photographers, girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with them on bus trips, and even Buzz Aldrin himself--\"Harstad combines formal play and linguistic ferocity with a searing emotional directness\" (Dedi Felman, Words Without Borders) to bring Mattias to the realization that he cannot always blend into the background.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609804114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.47h x 5.82w x 1.19d","brand":"Johan Harstad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45211586822325,"sku":"9781609804114","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_522ba38d-445a-4bc6-bac0-0cfbc138f8e8.jpg?v=1742913373","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/buzz-aldrin-what-happened-to-you-in-all-the-confusion-9781609804114","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}