{"product_id":"long-island-compromise","title":"Long Island Compromise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Is this book as good [as \u003ci\u003eFleishman\u003c\/i\u003e]? It's better' \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN\u003cbr\u003e'Shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lavishly comic' \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A lip-smacking tale' \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Elegant and devastating' \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFleishman Is in Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e comes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalised and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife, kids and exquisite Long Island home less than a week later, and the family moves on with their gilded lives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut now, nearly forty years later, it seems that nobody ever got over anything, after all. With a death in the family, the hidden struggles of the Fletchers come bubbling to the surface. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarl has spent years secretly seeking closure to the mystery of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has given up everything to protect her husband's fragile emotional health and keep the business thriving. Their three grown children aren't doing much better: Nathan's chronic existential fear won't allow him to advance at his law fi rm; Beamer, a failing Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything - substances, food, women - at any cost; and Jenny, with her brilliant mind, is desperate to prove she is not anything like her family by working in trade unions (whilst still receiving quarterly payouts from the family business). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoney was what put the Fletchers in danger, but it has also protected them - until now...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLong Island Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMORE PRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eLONG ISLAND COMPROMISE\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The status book you'll want to be seen with' \u003ci\u003eSTYLIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[A] scabrous satire' \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This author's talents are boundless' \u003ci\u003eLA TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Substantive and profound' CATHY RENTZENBRINK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Greatness so often comes at the expense of what is enjoyable. \u003ci\u003eLong Island Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e is both, and then some' \u003ci\u003eIPAPER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exuberant and absorbing' \u003ci\u003eATLANTIC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eFLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is no one that this book isn't for . . . Pure brilliance' INDIA KNIGHT, \u003ci\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Could be one of the books of my entire lifetime. I've never felt so seen' GRACE DENT, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A work of utter perfection' ELIZABETH GILBERT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e[FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE was a \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller (UK) in August 2019 and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller (USA) in June 2019]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248726659416,"sku":"9781472273079","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781472273079.jpg?v=1768605312","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/long-island-compromise","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}