{"product_id":"the-sun-collective-9781984899712","title":"The Sun Collective","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Baxter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to--and unmoored by--a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. From the winner of the PEN\/Malamud Award and \"one of our most gifted writers\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over their home city of Minneapolis. She checks the usual places-- churches, storefronts, benches--and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who's convinced he may start a revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Collective \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087760220311,"sku":"9781984899712","price":875.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781984899712.webp?v=1767640864","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-sun-collective-9781984899712","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}