{"product_id":"bottle-grove-hardcover","title":"BOTTLE GROVE (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling, award-winning novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett--she's keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels--the bride is emphatic about changing her name, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding, \u003ci\u003eBottle Grove\u003c\/i\u003e is a sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions--one forged of love and the other of greed--and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it--and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco's tech community and . . . everyone else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Handler, Daniel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337173889298,"sku":"9781632864277","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/9890263482769_84593f74-4ef9-4f75-baf4-3de39f0c3225.jpg?v=1780435187","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/bottle-grove-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}