{"product_id":"traffic-laughter-isbn-9780679738848","title":"Traffic \u0026 Laughter","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eEasy Travel to Other Planets\u003c\/i\u003e, here is \"a work of high art—intelligent, sophisticated and funny, a truly original book\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the hills above Los Angeles to the French town where Hitler once danced his victory jig, this alluring novel cruises the intersection between the farcical and the tragic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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.”—The \u003ci\u003eNew 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\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.”—The \u003ci\u003eNew 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\u003cb\u003eTed Mooney\u003c\/b\u003e 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.Author of Easy Travel to Other Planets","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300473917669,"sku":"NP9780679738848","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679738848.jpg?v=1767742882","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/traffic-laughter-isbn-9780679738848","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}