{"product_id":"switzy-isbn-9798217411818","title":"Switzy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Guest. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click. Click. Drag. Click. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mystery, among many mysteries. The world, once so knowable, has been rendered inscrutable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is what David knows: Cody, his assistant, asleep in the seat next to him, will shepherd him along the voyage. A stopover in London. Dinner with his adult daughter. A meeting in France with an old friend, estranged for decades. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis final destination is Zurich.     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid glides through hotel rooms and airports and foreign cities, running out the clock on his mortal life. His grasp on the present slips away, and the past rushes in: the Sunday roasts of childhood. The stiff clothes meant only for church. A summer at a school friend’s house. The losses and missteps that punctuate a life.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs David’s arrival in Zurich looms, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unraveling mind emerges, both darkly humorous and profoundly moving. Hypnotic and startlingly original, \u003ci\u003eSwitzy \u003c\/i\u003eprobes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him, and the illusions he's relied on, vanish.\u003cb\u003eEmma Cline \u003c\/b\u003eis the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guest, The Girls, \u003c\/i\u003eand the story collection \u003ci\u003eDaddy. The Girls \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. It was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor’s Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. \u003ci\u003eThe Guest\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the PEN\/Faulkner Award. Cline's stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eanthologies. She received an O’Henry Award and the Plimpton Prize from \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and was chosen as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Young American Novelists.","brand":"Random House Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532193378533,"sku":"NP9798217411818","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/switzy-isbn-9798217411818","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}