{"product_id":"weekend-in-new-york","title":"Weekend in New York","description":"'What are you feeling so anxious about? I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.'\n'That's what I don't like. That's what you don't realise. It's harder on the rest of us.'\n'I'm sure it must be,' he said.\n\nTolstoy claimed: 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'. But what if the happy families are actually the most unusual of all?\n\nPaul Essinger is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and the mother of their two-year-old son, Cal. Together they form a tableau of the contented upper-middle-class New York family. But summer storms are blowing through Manhattan, and Paul's parents have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open. Over the course of the weekend, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point . . . \n\nWhat does it mean to be a family? To be an individual? And how do we deal with the responsibilities these roles impose upon us? A Weekend In New York intertwines the politics of the household and the state to forge a luminous national portrait on a deceptively local scale. Recalling some of America's most celebrated novelists - this is John Updike's Rabbit for a new generation - Benjamin Markovits' writing reminds us of the heights that social realism can reach.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardback","offer_id":32686170177621,"sku":"9780571338054N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9780571338054.jpg?v=1598879294","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/weekend-in-new-york","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}