{"product_id":"2940193064725","title":"Mating (National Book Award Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER• Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic loveeven as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Luminous . . . Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“The best rendering of erotic politics . . . since D.H. Lawrence. . . . The voice of Rush's narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.”-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a compelling waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopian society in a remote corner of the Kalahari-one in which he is virtually the only man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat ensues is an exhilarating quest and an exuberant comedy of manners: “A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously.” \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46326209347825,"sku":"2940193064725","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940193064725_p0.jpg?v=1769573460","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940193064725","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}