{"product_id":"playworld-adam-ross","title":"Playworld, Adam Ross","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDescription\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn’t seem strange at the time.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGriffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Nuclear Family\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep—along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach—he's teetering on the edge of collapse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin’s senior. Unwilling to lay his burdens on his shrink—whom he shares with his father, mother, and younger brother, Oren—Griffin soon finds himself in the back of Naomi’s Mercedes sedan, again and again, confessing all to the one person who might do him the most harm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLess a bildungsroman than a story of miseducation, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePlayworld\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a novel of epic proportions, bursting with laughter and heartache. Adam Ross immerses us in the life of Griffin and his loving (yet disintegrating) family while seeming to evoke the entirety of Manhattan and the ethos of an era—with Jimmy Carter on his way out and a B-list celebrity named Ronald Reagan on his way in. Surrounded by adults who embody the age’s excesses—and who seem to care little about what their children are up to—Griffin is left to himself to find the line between youth and maturity, dependence and love, acting and truly grappling with life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e528 pages, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6.29 x 1.73 x 9.44 inches, \u003c\/span\u003ehardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46141025747169,"sku":"9780385351294","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9558\/8015\/files\/Screenshot2025-02-06at8.16.08PM.png?v=1738890974","url":"https:\/\/pressshopatl.shop\/products\/playworld-adam-ross","provider":"Pressshopatl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}