{"id":2756,"date":"2013-09-03T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307907981"},"modified":"2013-09-03T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:30:00","slug":"at-the-bottom-of-everything-by-ben-dolnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/at-the-bottom-of-everything-by-ben-dolnick\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307907981\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307907981\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307907981\">At the Bottom of Everything<\/a> A Novel<br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=74325\">Ben Dolnick<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Hardcover<\/b>, 256 pages | Pantheon | Fiction &#8211; Literary; Fiction &#8211; Family Life; Fiction &#8211; Coming Of Age | <b>$24.95<\/b> | September 3, 2013 | 978-0-307-90798-1 (0-307-90798-8)<\/p>\n<p><p>A stunning novel of<b> <\/b>friendship, guilt, and madness: two friends, torn apart by a terrible secret, and the dark adventure that neither of them could have ever conceived.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It&rsquo;s been ten years since the &ldquo;incident,&rdquo; and Adam has long since decided he&rsquo;s better off without his former best friend, Thomas. Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping with the mother of a student, spending lonely nights looking up his ex-girlfriend on Facebook, and pretending that he has some more meaningful plan for an adult life. But when he receives an email from Thomas&rsquo;s mother begging for his help, he finds himself drawn back into his old friend&rsquo;s world, and into the past he&rsquo;s tried so desperately to forget. As Adam embarks upon a magnificently strange and unlikely journey, Ben Dolnick unspools a tale of spiritual reckoning, of search and escape, of longing and reaching for redemption&mdash;a tale of near hallucinatory power.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Bottom of Everything A NovelWritten by Ben DolnickHardcover, 256 pages | Pantheon | Fiction &#8211; Literary; Fiction &#8211; Family Life; Fiction &#8211; Coming Of Age | $24.95 | September 3, 2013 | 978-0-307-90798-1 (0-307-90798-8)A stunning novel of friendship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}