{"product_id":"thorn-tree-hardcover","title":"Thorn Tree - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMax Ludington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terrifically vivid. . . stirring.\" - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e A beautifully wrought novel on the aftershocks of the heady but dangerous late 1960s and the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNow in his late-sixties, Daniel lives in quiet anonymity in a converted guest cottage in the Hollywood Hills. A legendary artist, he's known for one seminal work--\u003ci\u003eThorn Tree\u003c\/i\u003e--a hulking, welded, scrap metal sculpture that he built in the Mojave desert in the 1970s. The work emerged from tragedy, but building it kept Daniel alive and catapulted him to brief, reluctant fame in the art world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Daniel is neighbors with Celia, a charismatic but fragile actress. She too experienced youthful fame, hers in a popular television series, but saw her life nearly collapse after a series of bad decisions. Now, a new movie with a notorious director might reignite her career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A single mother, Celia leaves her young son Dean for weeks at a time with her father, Jack, who stays at her house while she's on location. Jack and Daniel strike up a tentative friendship as Dean takes to visiting Daniel's cottage--but something about Jack seems off. Discomfiting, strangely intimate, with flashes of anger balanced by an almost philosophical bent, Jack is not the harmless grandparent he pretends to be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Weaving the idealism and the darkness of the late 1960s, the glossy surfaces of Los Angeles celebrity today, and thrumming with the sound of the Grateful Dead, the mania of Charles Manson and other cults, and the secrets that both Jack and Daniel have harbored for fifty years, \u003ci\u003eThorn Tree\u003c\/i\u003e by Max Ludington is an utterly-compelling novel.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAX LUDINGTON's first novel, \u003ci\u003eTiger in a Trance\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable book, and his fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTin House, Meridian, HOW Journal, Outerbridge, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e On the Rocks: the KGB Bar Fiction Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the writing department at Pratt Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.28 x 9.41 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53708243272044,"sku":"9781250288714","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/3019\/6844\/files\/b8364349de8ffef89c4c03d90fdc138d.webp?v=1778021132","url":"https:\/\/pattansenterprise.com\/products\/thorn-tree-hardcover","provider":"Pattansenterprise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}