{"product_id":"the-brightness","title":"The Brightness","description":"DESCRIPTION : \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I could not put it down’ \u003c\/strong\u003eMADELINE CASH\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Brilliant and enchanting’ \u003c\/strong\u003eNATHAN HILL\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Deeply absorbing, vivid, and humane’\u003c\/strong\u003e LISA HALLIDAY\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Fielding\u003c\/em\u003e comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love and grief, following two young women as they fumble their way into a larger world that won't stop changing.\u003c\/strong\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eAt 27, Pella’s life looks settled: she’s a recent college graduate, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella’s past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiralling toward an unplanned future in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eThere, in a city that’s equal parts glittering opportunity and cutthroat grit, Pella is forced to see herself in constantly changing lights as she wrestles with who she is and what she will become. As she cycles through possibilities and identities – is she an artist? A bartender? A scholar, a lover, a wife? – Pella navigates the heights and depths of passion and ambition, and the incalculable wages of love and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eIn stunning scenes and spectacular characters, Chad Harbach captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in. Energetic, funny, and deeply human, this much-anticipated follow-up to \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Fielding\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Chad Harbach as one of the most accomplished and perceptive writers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Captures the complicated nature of female friendship, and the wonderful excruciating confusion of growing up’ \u003c\/strong\u003eMADELINE CASH, author of \u003cem\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A monumental campus novel, full of smart and mercurial characters who feel as real as your own roommates’\u003c\/strong\u003e TOM PERROTTA, author of \u003cem\u003eGhost Town\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS : \u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003eISBN : 9780008536879 \u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003eBY (AUTHOR) Harbach, Chad \u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePUBLISHER : HarperCollins Publishers  \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePUBLICATION DATE : October 27, 2026 \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCOUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eIMPRINT : Fourth Estate Ltd \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLANGUAGE : English \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAGE : Relating to early adulthood \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003ePRODUCT FORM : Paperback \/ softback \u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003eDIMENSION : 234 mm x 153 mm \u003cbr\u003eWEIGHT : 270 g \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRODUCT CATEGORY :\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookazine-hong-kong.myshopify.com\/collections\/Fiction-Related-items\"\u003eFiction \u0026amp; Related items\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harbach, Chad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50079255527701,"sku":"9780008536879","price":224.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0272\/7087\/3174\/files\/9780008536879.jpg?v=1786354997","url":"https:\/\/bookazine.com.hk\/products\/the-brightness","provider":"Bookazine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}