{"product_id":"the-award-a-novel-isbn-9780063445284","title":"The Award: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Grips the reader and never lets go\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Award\u003c\/i\u003e begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition but quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl’s addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.”—Tom Perrotta, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTracy Flick Can’t Win\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMrs. Fletcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club\u003c\/i\u003e comes the word-of-mouth sensation, a thrilling, twisty story about a young writer trying to make his way through a cutthroat literary scene with life-and-death stakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Trent is an aspiring novelist hoping to make a name for himself in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a place where ambitious writers lurk around every corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale, who, behind his celebrated image, is . . . haughty and disdainful, definitely not of the mentor variety. Until David wins a prestigious award for his new book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilas is at last interested . . . and jealous. But soon the administrator of the award comes to David with alarming news, which forces the writer into a set of desperate choices. Then fate intervenes—and nothing can ever go back to normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the wit and psychological wisdom of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Plot\u003c\/i\u003e and Teddy Wayne’s \u003ci\u003eThe Winner, The Award \u003c\/i\u003eis a timely, razor-sharp, and unputdownable novel about secrets, ambition, human foibles, and the dangerous things we will do to get ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Pearl revels in wickedness, presenting a literary world in which a successful writer’s haughtiness is both encouraged and rewarded.\" ⎯\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] cleverly plotted literary satire . . . . the narrative, which melds the improbability of farce with a claustrophobic horror reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, grips the readers and never lets go.”— \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gripping and relentlessly entertaining.\" - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With cheek and wit, Pearl delivers a serpentine-coiled plot and convincing characters that make this novel hard to put down.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Through clever twists, including a mistaken award with devastating consequences,  Pearl brings to life a character whose desperation for success is dangerously palpable. \u003ci\u003eThe Award \u003c\/i\u003ealso delivers sardonic humor . . . Pearl creates a thrilling, introspective, entertaining world.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A publishing-industry satire in the vein of Andrew Lipstein’s\u003ci\u003e Last Resor\u003c\/i\u003et,\u003ci\u003e The Awar\u003c\/i\u003ed takes a dim view of its characters’ ambitions. Every bad and selfish choice made by the protagonist just adds to the pleasure of it.\"  ⎯ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVulture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Matthew Pearl, the much-loved writer of \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other books, has given us in this new novel a world of writers and intrigue . . . . This is a book that feels, on the surface, like it’s about the fault in our literary stars but is actually ⎯ to borrow another writer’s famous phrasing ⎯ in ourselves.\" ⎯ \u003cb\u003ePittsburgh Post Gazette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Award\u003c\/em\u003e begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition, but it quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl’s addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Tracy Flick Can't Win and Mrs. Fletcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Award\u003c\/em\u003e is a propulsive and gripping novel about the literary world, ambition, deception and murder and the twisted corner where they all intersect. Matthew Pearl grabs you from the first sentence and doesn’t let go.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Night We Lost Him\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A darkly entertaining satire set in present-day Cambridge, Mass., \u003cem\u003eThe Award \u003c\/em\u003eby Matthew Pearl tells the story of an unscrupulous writer's improbable rise to the upper echelons of literary society. It is a superb caricature of a ruthlessly ambitious young man who will stop at nothing, even murder, to claw his way to the top . . . . Marvelously twisted.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deviously entertaining.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pearl takes literary ambition to macabre extremes in this gleefully wicked satire…Readers won’t be able to resist this.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pearl takes a knife to the publishing industry and its much-ballyhooed literary prizes, offering a keen-eyed portrait of ambition, jealousy, and desperation.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Think \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Mr. Ripley\u003c\/i\u003e set over the course of a cold, dark winter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's tense, it's a pageturner.\" ⎯ \u003cb\u003eBestselling author John Searles, \u003ci\u003eThe TODAY Show\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A thriller where catharsis and darkness go hand in hand in the rat race that is literary ambition.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarvard Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ooh, you’re going to want to get your hands on \u003ci\u003eThe Award\u003c\/i\u003e and curl up with it . . . . It starts out seeming like just another one of those lightly parodic novels with a protagonist who’s a thwarted writer—but twist! It’s actually a Highsmithian work of psychological suspense and murder.\" ⎯\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, Dinner Party newsletter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Matthew Pearl’s gratifying and unapologetically cynical novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Award\u003c\/i\u003e, turns a spotlight on the world of American publishing and rotates it . . . . Suffice it to say that though the literary world may have ‘no morality in it,’ as a character laments, one can’t deny the virtues of a novel this good.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e BookPage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"May remind readers of Percival Everett’s novel\u003ci\u003e Erasure . . . .  \u003c\/i\u003e[Pearl's] evocation of the vicious, condescending Hale . . . is particularly amusing.,\"  ⎯ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Minnesota Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Satire and mystery swirl with arrogance, the creative process and unchecked ambition in Matthew Pearl’s amusing and realistic \u003ci\u003eThe Award\u003c\/i\u003e. Pearl turns a delightfully poisoned pen toward writers and the writing life.\" ⎯ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSun Sentinel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Matthew Pearl’s brilliant and cunning new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Award\u003c\/i\u003e, David Trent represents anyone out there who has ever wanted something for as long as they could remember only to be constantly disappointed . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Award\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps the most devilishly scathing indictment of the publishing industry that I have ever read. Captured in the guise of a psychological thriller, the plight and journey that David Trent takes is truly edge-of-your seat suspenseful. In the hands of Matthew Pearl, it becomes a scandalous read that is memorable and well worth devouring.” ⎯ \u003cb\u003eBookreporter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588049645797,"sku":"NP9780063445284","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063445284.jpg?v=1773961129","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-award-a-novel-isbn-9780063445284","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}