{"product_id":"singing-into-the-piano-isbn-9780679743064","title":"Singing into the Piano","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A fascinating work” (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e) of intellectual and erotic provocation in which a couple are drawn into the high-wire political campaign and marriage of a Mexican popular hero who’s running for his country’s presidency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a political fundraiser in New York, Andrew and Edith inaugurate their love affair with a brazen sexual spectacle. Watching them is the event’s speaker, Santiago Diaz, a Mexican popular hero running for his country’s presidency. He is aroused, disturbed, and intent on finding the couple whose erotic risk-taking parallels his own high-wire career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon Andrew and Edith are drawn into Diaz’s life and the vortex of trans-American politics where plunder dictates policy, loyalty is devalued currency, and the future of nations is decided by talk-show appearances and terror.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Ted Mooney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] combustible literary cross between Hawkesian avant-garde and Don DeLillo’s post-modern cool.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Unsettling, coolly intense.... Mooney is a risk-taking adventurer in novelistic possibilities.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Equally enchanting and disorienting.” —\u003ci\u003eBoston Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A novelist with a gift for razor-sharp dialogue, for the brilliantly chiseled sentence, and the memorably vivid scene.... A fascinating work.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003eTED MOONEY is the author of \u003ci\u003eEasy Travel to Other Planets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTraffic and Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSinging into the Piano, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Same River Twice\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire, Granta,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and he received grants from the Guggenheim and the Ingram Merrill foundations. He died in 2022.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301189636325,"sku":"NP9780679743064","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679743064.jpg?v=1767736669","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/singing-into-the-piano-isbn-9780679743064","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}