{"product_id":"down-time-a-novel","title":"Down Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eA terribly funny and lovably louche novel about five friends growing older, if not always up, from Andrew Martin, author of Early Work and Cool for America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout Cassandra, Aaron would probably be dead. Fortunately, she won’t leave him―despite the drinking, flirting, solipsism, armchair socialism, overspending, infidelity, catastrophic depression, and disparate but increasingly frequent spells of drug- and booze-addled debauchery. Unfortunately, she might be reaching the end of her rope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCass and Aaron, like the other neurotic, ambivalent intellectuals in their orbit, are getting older. There’s Malcolm, with his own alcoholism and marginally more successful writing career; his partner, Violet, a doctor with little patience for both; Antonia, a teaching fellow whose book about ecocide may get her tenure at a prestigious university near Harvard Square―yes, that one. When Sam, a charming trust-fund punk at the center of this loose network, dies suddenly, and a global pandemic takes hold, all five must contend with the lives they’ve made: their desires and disappointments, habits and hang-ups, pathologies and addictions, and the possibilities of making art and being good as the earth whirls to its end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown Time marks the delightful return of Andrew Martin, the author of the pitch-perfect slacker classics Early Work and Cool for America. Compulsively readable and contagiously intelligent, this is a wryly comic social novel of settling down, selling out, growing up, and getting out that turns a terribly funny and hyper-literate eye on our most desperately guarded ambitions: to love and be loved, to know and be known, to stay sane, if only just.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49075923583200,"sku":"0374617066","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9780374617066.jpg?v=1773293476","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/ja\/products\/down-time-a-novel","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}