{"product_id":"the-old-romantic","title":"The Old Romantic","description":"A long-estranged family discovers that blood is thicker than water in this hilarious and moving domestic comedy.\n\nIt's been a couple of decades since Nick cast off his impossible, contentious, embarrassingly working-class parents: gruff, stingy, explosive Ken and June, who seemed to revert to a primal state of nature after a divorce that both of them managed to blame on Nick. Enjoying the life of the country gentleman that he's made for himself with impeccably turned-out Astrid and her teenage daughter, Laura, Nick has kept only the slenderest family connection to his brother, Dave, who's stuck with the role of ambassador in a family that's long settled into cold war.\n\nBut then Ken decides that the year of his death has arrived, and thus kicks off an ill-conceived quest to reunite his family before he meets his fate. Bringing to this tinderbox just the spark it needs, Louise Dean sends up the whole clan, each of them fatally flawed yet saved by hidden grace, and illuminates with her incomparable acuity their clashes of generation, gender, class, and temperament, in a riotous and compassionate conflagration.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1594487790\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1594487790.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Dean, Louise\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44183346315441,"sku":"RDV.1594487790.VG","price":7.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/skuimage_c520ef73-8afd-4713-8e93-3a88d2594c36.jpg?v=1717263123","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/the-old-romantic","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}