{"product_id":"shadow-ticket","title":"Shadow Ticket","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe new novel from Thomas Pynchon, bestselling and award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVineland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInherent Vice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A masterpiece.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Telegraph \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bonkers and brilliant fun.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Late Pynchon at his finest. Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eShadow Ticket \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ecapers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance — and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMilwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Spellman Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46661276074162,"sku":null,"price":27.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46661276106930,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/8994\/0658\/files\/shadowticket.jpg?v=1761746087","url":"https:\/\/spellmanbookstore.com\/products\/shadow-ticket","provider":"Spellman Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}