{"product_id":"white-birch-paperback-2","title":"White Birch - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Edmund Lessard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA darkly humorous novel about the trappings of generational wealth and the human cost of ambition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe White Birch Hotel in the city of Tuffty Town teems with poorly kept secrets: exiled governments negotiating banished royals and messy revolutions; detectives tapping phones and trailing spies; paramours leaving tell-tale signs of furtive assignations in unlocked suites; captains of finance hatching plans in the grey haze of the smoking bar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe find among this clamour Henry Huvvy: bon vivant, boulevardier, and mainstay of milieus both refined and ragtag. But when the lure of unattainable love drives him to build, with questionable tactics, a new empire of opulence, the fate of an erstwhile princess is set against his own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite Birch introduces a vividly rendered cast of characters into a world at once familiar and delightfully uncanny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 402\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47478486565085,"sku":"9781639882052","price":23.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/MmVYS2FzeDJaQmtlMzJjMjN6bkU2Zz09_2f804053-92c7-4cbd-bd34-c2f53f1b4724.webp?v=1771774177","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/white-birch-paperback-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}