{"product_id":"9780374534158","title":"My Struggle, Book 2: A Man in Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eBook 2\u003c\/i\u003e] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" —James Wood, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Struggle: Book 2 \u003c\/i\u003eis at heart a love story—the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later readers will be left breathlessly demanding more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370058780733,"sku":"9780374534158","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374534158_p0.jpg?v=1771587896","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780374534158","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}