{"product_id":"man-year-9781250123985-new","title":"Man of the Year","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hilarious and poignant\" -- \u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with \u003ci\u003eRumours\u003c\/i\u003e, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts- a backwater town of witches, Puritans, and sea-captain wannabes. After his eighth move in a dozen years, Lou figures he should just resign himself to a teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes, school bullies, and unrequited lust for every girl he likes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Then one October morning an old friend of Lou's father, free-wheeling (and free-loving) Howie Gordon arrives at the Cove doorstep from California with his beautiful wife Carly. Howie is everything Lou wants to be: handsome as a movie star, built like a god and in possession of an unstoppable confidence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Then, over Thanksgiving dinner, Howie drops a bombshell. Holding up an issue of \u003ci\u003ePlaygirl\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, he flips to the center and there he is, Mr. November in all his natural glory. Howie has his eye on becoming the next Burt Reynolds, and a wild idea for how to do it: win \u003ci\u003ePlaygirl\u003c\/i\u003e's Man of the Year. And he knows just who should manage his campaign. As Lou and Howie canvas Salem for every vote in town - little old ladies at bridge club, the local town witch, construction workers on break and everyone in between - Lou is forced to juggle the perils of adolescence with the pursuit of Hollywood stardom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMan of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e is the improbable true story of Lou's thirteenth year, one very unusual campaign, and the unexpected guest who changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FLATIRON BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51590183125282,"sku":"9781250123985-new","price":20.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781250123985.jpg?v=1777522817","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/man-year-9781250123985-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}