{"product_id":"baked-9780802170767","title":"Baked","description":"Miro Basinas is an experimental botanist who sells his rarefied product to a discerning clientele. Only Miro's not growing heirloom tomatoes or making organic wine--he's growing weed. And when Miro hits the big time by winning Amsterdam's famed Cannabis Cup, \u003ci\u003ecannasseurs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eganjaficionados\u003c\/i\u003e aren't the only people who want a piece of him and his mind-blowing pot that tastes like mangoes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wickedly funny novel, Baked opens with a bang as Miro is cut down by a bullet. A mild-mannered hipster who doesn't know the first thing about revenge--or even who shot him--Miro is soon on a quest to recover his prize invention and to secure his place as the Floyd Zaiger (creator of the pluot) of weed. It's a journey packed with a delicious cast of characters, including a string-theory obsessed cop, a kinky paramedic, a Mormon missionary struggling to keep his \"sap\" under control in a city that is the personification of sex, a half-Irish-half-Salvadoran drug dealer and his dim-witted associates, a cougar starlet, and an entrepreneur who wants to turn his medical marijuana Compassion Centers into the Starbucks of pot. \u003ci\u003eBaked\u003c\/i\u003e is a hilarious, rip-roaring romp from a talented, utterly original novelist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Haskell Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press, Black Cat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802170767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/17\/2010 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2010 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Haskell Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, \u003ci\u003eMoist, Delicious, Salty, Baked, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRaw\u003c\/i\u003e, and the non-fiction \u003ci\u003eHeart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Vulture, \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Smith is an award-winning screenwriter and assistant professor in the MFA program for Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert Graduate Center. He lives in Los Angeles. He likes Mexican food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press, Black Cat","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44456485486707,"sku":"9780802170767","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_a1ec5218-4b68-4052-ad14-f5f29578e5a2.jpg?v=1773751558","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/baked-9780802170767","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}