{"id":2757,"date":"2013-09-03T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307949615"},"modified":"2013-09-03T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:30:00","slug":"leading-man-by-benjamin-svetkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/03\/leading-man-by-benjamin-svetkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Man by Benjamin Svetkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307949615\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307949615\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307949615\">Leading Man<\/a> <br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=154529\">Benjamin Svetkey<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Trade Paperback<\/b>, 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction &#8211; Romance &#8211; Contemporary; Fiction &#8211; Coming Of Age; Fiction &#8211; Humorous | <b>$14.95<\/b> | September 3, 2013 | 978-0-307-94961-5 (0-307-94961-3)<\/p>\n<p>In the tradition of David Nicholls and Nick Hornby comes a hilarious, bittersweet, heartwarming debut novel about love of all kinds: first, unrequited, delusional, obsessive, and, ultimately, the kind that lasts.<\/p>\n<p>At 26, Maxwell Lerner thinks he has his whole life figured out. He&#8217;s got the girl&#8211;his high-school sweetheart Samantha. He&#8217;s got the job&#8211;low-level reporter for a prestigious national magazine. He even lives with aforementioned girl in a walk-up studio apartment in the West Village. Life is sweet. Until his aspiring actress girlfriend leaves him for his childhood hero, Johnny Mars, who, as action adventurer &#8220;Jack Montana,&#8221; features in some of Max&#8217;s favorite movies. Getting dumped for one of his idols sets Max off on a dual mission: to get inside the glamorous world Samantha left him for, and to win her back. But when Samantha&#8217;s perfect life takes an unexpected turn, Max gets more of an education, in life and in love, than he bargained for.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading Man Written by Benjamin SvetkeyTrade Paperback, 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction &#8211; Romance &#8211; Contemporary; Fiction &#8211; Coming Of Age; Fiction &#8211; Humorous | $14.95 | September 3, 2013 | 978-0-307-94961-5 (0-307-94961-3)In the tradition of David Nichol&#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-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757"}],"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=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}