{ "item_title" : "Love & Theft", "item_author" : [" Benjamin Obler "], "item_description" : "What is theft? A car stolen in the Catskills. A screenplay appropriated in Brooklyn. A man who steals his fiancée's trust. A child who steals a shoebox from a stranger.LOVE & THEFT by Benjamin Obler follows three intersecting plots across upstate New York and Brooklyn: Hank Delaney, cash-strapped and desperate, recruits Ray Ramírez to help him steal a legendary Shelby Mustang from Segal Metalworks. The car is already leased to a film production shooting a TV series called Love & Theft. But Ray falls for Shelby Segal, the owner's sister, and his loyalties split down the middle.Paul Boustrophedon, a trademark attorney, abandons his fiancée Pamela to join Nolan Pilcrow's crusade: proving that director D.A. Chimister stole Pilcrow's screenplay. Their alliance depends on Sylvie Virgule, the series' star-who owes Chimister her career, her sobriety, and possibly her freedom.And Walter Chamaran, a prodigy in Nova Scotia, narrates it all from the margins of his mother's yoga studio, writing from an understanding gleaning in trancelike states. When the theft unfolds, Walter makes a choice in hopes of preventing someone else's tragedy, and by doing so heals himself.Obler's prose balances comic energy with moral gravity. The dialogue snaps; the metaphors stick. Characters carry names that are also tools of writing, a signature gesture that invites readers to wonder: who is controlling this story?Set against the backdrop of a solar eclipse and the rise of streaming television, Love & Theft arrives at an unsettling conclusion. The car gets sold. The lawsuit collapses. The narrator quits. And the reader must decide: what happens to a story after the author walks away?", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/97/153/302/1971533025_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "29.00", "online_price" : "29.00", "our_price" : "29.00", "club_price" : "29.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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