{"product_id":"heart-broke-in-9781250037770","title":"Heart Broke in","description":"\u003cp\u003eA RICHLY IMAGINED NOVEL OF FAMILY, LOVE AND SCIENCE SET IN MODERN-DAY LONDON, FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eRitchie Shepherd, aging former pop star and wildly successful producer of a reality teen talent show, is starting to trip over the intricacy of his own lies. Gallingly, his sister, Bec, a scientist developing a crucial vaccine, is as addicted to truth-telling as Ritchie is to falsehood. Ritchie relies on her certitude even as he seethes with resentment. A devastating chain of events is set into motion when Bec tells her fianc , Val, a powerful tabloid editor, that she can't bring herself to marry him after all. Furious, he sets into motion an elaborate revenge plot intended to destroy Bec by exposing the people who are close to her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bighearted epic in the manner of Tolstoy, James Meek's \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeart Broke In\u003c\/i\u003e is also as shrewd, starkly funny, and of-the-moment as Jonathan Franzen's \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e or Jeffrey Eugenides's \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Plot\u003c\/i\u003e. Most of all, it is a staggeringly good read, fiction with the reverberating resonance of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250037770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.06w x 1.07d","brand":"James Meek","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648515305628,"sku":"9781250037770","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b6dee026-1f3c-4eef-8fcf-afc0640fc4c3.jpg?v=1603870255","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/heart-broke-in-9781250037770","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}