{"product_id":"9781472273031-long-island-compromise","title":"Long Island Compromise","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA sensational new novel by the international bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFleishman Is in Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e comes a darkly exhilarating new novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Is this book as good [as \u003ci\u003eFleishman\u003c\/i\u003e]? It's better' \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Might be a masterpiece' HUGH LAURIE\u003cbr\u003e'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN\u003cbr\u003e'Shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lavishly comic' \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A lip-smacking tale' \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Elegant and devastating' \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFleishman Is in Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e comes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. It becomes apparent that Carl has been quietly pursuing closure to the kidnapping for all these years, and his wife and children must face that the money that they believed bought them safety was actually never capable of doing any such thing.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLong Island Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMORE PRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eLONG ISLAND COMPROMISE\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The status book you'll want to be seen with' \u003ci\u003eSTYLIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[A] scabrous satire' \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'More than a delight' \u003ci\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This author's talents are boundless' \u003ci\u003eLA TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Substantive and profound' CATHY RENTZENBRINK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Greatness so often comes at the expense of what is enjoyable. \u003ci\u003eLong Island Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e is both, and then some' \u003ci\u003eIPAPER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exuberant and absorbing' \u003ci\u003eATLANTIC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eFLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is no one that this book isn't for . Pure brilliance' INDIA KNIGHT, \u003ci\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Could be one of the books of my entire lifetime. I've never felt so seen' GRACE DENT, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A work of utter perfection' ELIZABETH GILBERT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e[FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE was a \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller (UK) in August 2019 and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller (USA) in June 2019]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41271117414497,"sku":"9781472273031","price":19.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29840738.jpg?v=1725786862","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472273031-long-island-compromise","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}