{"product_id":"book-gronsky-9781038360809-new","title":"The Book of Gronsky","description":"Gilbert Gronsky is at it again. The neophyte author of The Life of Gronsky has returned to the world of Danny Hawkins, a Vancouver Island-based P.I. whose midcentury sleuthing proves far more palatable than the grind of post-pandemic self-promotion. Unfortunately, Gronsky feels obliged to market his first book - a task that takes him from a Saturday afternoon launch at the local library to a midwinter writers' festival on Ostrich Island. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the larger world devolves into war and climate disaster, attending such an event feels a bit like putting his head in the sand, but Gronsky isn't fated to engage in the activist shenanigans of younger authors like the doggedly dedicated poet, Tree Leaf. He's got a published book to promote and a new book to write - a novel\/memoir about a multitude of mysteries in and around Nanaimo, BC in the 50s and early 60s including goings-on connected to that prodigious mystic\/charlatan, Brother Xll. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Gronsky finish his second manuscript, or is he destined to be a one-book wonder? And, worryingly, is that even a thing?","brand":"FRIESENPR","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67603419267362,"sku":"9781038360809-new","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781038360809.jpg?v=1792990423","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/book-gronsky-9781038360809-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}