{"product_id":"shelter-in-place-paperback-1","title":"Shelter in Place - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Leavitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet.\" -Rachel Cusk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wickedly funny and emotionally expansive.\" - Jenny Offill\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Donald Trump? Liberal and like-minded-editors, writers, a decorator, a theater producer, and one financial guy, Eva's husband, Bruce-the friends have come to the countryside in the hope of restoring the bubble in which they have grown used to living. Yet with the exception of one brash and obnoxious book editor, none is willing to accept Eva's challenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelter in Place\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about house and home, furniture and rooms, safety and freedom and the invidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine even the most seemingly impregnable foundations. Eva is the novel's polestar, a woman who moves through her days accompanied by a roving, carefully curated salon. She's a generous hostess and more than a bit of a control freak, whose obsession with decorating allows Leavitt to treat us to a slyly comic look at the habitu s and fetishes of the so-called shelter industry. Yet when, in her avidity to secure shelter for herself, she persuades Bruce to buy a grand if dilapidated apartment in Venice, she unwittingly sets off the chain of events that will propel him, for the first time, to venture outside the bubble and embark on a wholly unexpected love affair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA comic portrait of the months immediately following the 2016 election, \u003ci\u003eShelter in Place\u003c\/i\u003e is also a meditation on the unreliable appetites-for love, for power, for freedom-by which both our public and private lives are shaped.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Leavitt\u003c\/b\u003e's novels and story collections include \u003ci\u003eFamily Dancing \u003c\/i\u003e(finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award), \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Language of Cranes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhile England Sleeps\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Arkansas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Clerk \u003c\/i\u003e(finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Prize and the IMPAC\/Dublin Literary Award), and \u003ci\u003eThe Two Hotel Francforts\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of two nonfiction books, \u003ci\u003eFlorence, A Delicate Case\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer\u003c\/i\u003e. He is co-director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida, where he is Professor of English and edits the journal \u003ci\u003eSubtropics.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768053530912,"sku":"9781620404881","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0619d8dd3d40e551a51219aab30cd0ac.webp?v=1780323618","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/shelter-in-place-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}