{"product_id":"the-apartment-greg-baxter","title":"The Apartment, Greg Baxter","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Apartment, the astonishing first novel by Greg Baxter, is tale of war and peace, friendship and aloneness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man walks across an old European capital. Heavy snow falls. He has come here from far away, hoping to forget. Instead, he remembers: home, war, lost friends. Complicity. In the company of a new friend and alive to the new experiences of the city, he moves through the snow and his complicated history in search of an apartment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Apartment, by the author of the acclaimed memoir A Preparation for Death, is a novel about war, the relationship between America and the rest of the world, and the brittle foundations of Western culture; but above all it is a book about the mysteries and alchemies of friendship - truthful, moving and brilliant. Acclaimed by Hisham Matar, Adam Thorpe and Roddy Doyle, among others, The Apartment is a deeply original and profoundly involving novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Admirable for its scope, ambition and unashamed seriousness of purpose, as well as its willingness to take stylistic and structural risks' Julie Myerson, Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Stunningly good' Susan Jeffreys, Saturday Review, BBC Radio Four\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Baxter's superbly elegant, understated writing explores the dynamics of America's relationship with the rest of the world' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful, horrible, wise novel' Dazed \u0026amp; Confused (Book of the Month)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A dark and sinewy novel, written with sparse clarity and affecting subtlety' Stuart Evers, Observer (Books of the Year)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreg Baxter was born in Texas in 1974. He lived for a number of years in Dublin, and now lives in Berlin. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir A Preparation for Death. The Apartment is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61344549765454,"sku":"9780241958025","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780241958025.jpg?v=1792838402","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/the-apartment-greg-baxter","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}