{"product_id":"town-house-a-novel-isbn-9780061131318","title":"Town House: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack Madigan should be leading an enviable life. He’s the sole heir of a ’70s rock icon. He lives with his retro-obsessed teenage son, Harlan, in a once-magnificent Boston town house. But now 36, Jack’s painting career is buckling under a raging case of agoraphobia. And when the foreclosure notice arrives, Jack must face losing the only home he’s ever known—and his only safe zone. When Jack’s ex-wife announces that Harlan would be better off living with her and her vitamin-enriched fiancé, Jack has to figure out how to deter the perky, inexperienced real-estate agent, hold on to his house, keep his son at home, and—through the tenacity of the little girl next door—finally step out onto the sidewalk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFox 2000 swooped in to pre-empt the film rights while \u003cem\u003eTown House \u003c\/em\u003ewas still on submission to publishers. Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions is set to produce the movie and Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter Doug Wright (\u003cem\u003eMemoirs of a Geisha\u003c\/em\u003e) is adapting the screenplay. A book with the ability to both entertain and move us, \u003cem\u003eTown House \u003c\/em\u003eis a smart, acerbic novel bursting with heart and quirky charm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Its official title is Town House, but in Hollywood they’re already calling Tish Cohen’s novel About a Girl.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“TOWN HOUSE is a poignant, acerbic and charming novel with real heart. Make room on your bookshelf for Tish Cohen.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara Delinsky, New York Times bestselling author of A WOMAN BETRAYED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For someone who can’t leave the house, Jack Madigan is a heck of a guy. \u003cem\u003eTown House\u003c\/em\u003e is everything you could ask for in a novel: touching, wry, bewitching, eccentric, and riveting to the end. I love this book and eagerly await Tish Cohen’s next.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A constellation of characters whose idiosyncrasies make the family of \u003cem\u003eLittle Miss Sunshine\u003c\/em\u003e look like \u003cem\u003eOzzie and Harriet\u003c\/em\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In her first novel, Tish Cohen has written an original portrait of a pathetic man that is at times sardonically comic and humanly poignant. Never straying into sentimentality or veering off course into ludicrousness, Cohen’s Jack Madigan is a three-dimensional, albeit anomalous, lost soul of our modern, twisted, fractured, society.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRex Pickett, New York Times bestselling author of Sideways\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“...sardonically comic and humanly poignant.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRex Pickett, New York Times bestselling author of SIDEWAYS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A dead rock star who still haunts the place; his agoraphobic son who must not only leave his father’s house but sell it; the real estate agent who couldn’t sell Shangri-La; and the neighbor child who visits through a hole in wall and thinks she’s a dog. You’d have to look awfully hard to find a novel with a bigger cast of memorable characters than Tish Cohen manages to squeeze into one Boston Town House.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Beard, author of Dear Zoe and Lost in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888507056357,"sku":"NP9780061131318","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061131318.jpg?v=1730229234","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/town-house-a-novel-isbn-9780061131318","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}