{"product_id":"9781509807857","title":"The Nix","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Hill, Nathan \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/01\/1800,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 640 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781509807857,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' – John Irving'The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to urge you to read it for yourselves.' – The GuardianNathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Samuel begins to excavate his mother's, and his country's, history, he will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about her - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Outstanding' – John Boyne, The Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55650315141493,"sku":"9781509807857","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781509807857.jpg?v=1753025242","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9781509807857","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}