{"product_id":"the-last-lifebooks","title":"The Last Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “mesmerizing” novel from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor’s Children\u003c\/i\u003e that is “as artful as it is affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\r\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving between colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Life\u003c\/i\u003e is Claire Messud’s “masterly” (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) sophomore novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. When shots from a grandfather’s rifle shatter the LaBasse family’s quiet integrity, long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before he was even born, a mother whose identity is not what she has claimed, a father whose act of defiance brings Hotel Bellevue—the family business—to its knees. Unforgettably narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a “phenomenally controlled tour de force” (Sarah Kerr, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Messud textures her novel with all the sensory pleasures that bind us to life, and fills it with characters who helplessly respond to each other’s unspoken signals and nuances.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Original, intense, and gripping.”—Gabriele Annan, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Messud, Claire","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction M-R)","offer_id":45578739974368,"sku":"","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b87c6eb4-4ba0-4579-98a3-9920cf1dc2dc.jpg?v=1715977294","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-lifebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}