{"product_id":"the-amateur","title":"The Amateur","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMidwives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Flight Attendant:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e When a young woman, a golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs, predatory men, and a teenager on trial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1978: It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are flirting with ninety when Mira Winston, eighteen years old, drives a golf ball from her tee toward the practice net near the clubhouse and caddy shack. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe golf ball, weighing 1.6 ounces, tears through the net, traveling 150 miles per hour, and slams, with sickening force, into the temple of a high school junior named Kenny Foster, rupturing an artery and unleashing a torrent of blood. Kenny brings his hand to the side of his head, then topples onto his side. He’s dead before the ambulance even arrives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of this terrible accident—and everyone, at first, agrees it was an accident—Mira looks for comfort in all the wrong places: In her lover, Theo Catton, a married man three decades her senior. In her mother, a well-kept woman with secrets of her own. In the dead caddy’s little sisters, girls bewildered by grief. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut when the investigators look more closely at the torn net, when a detective recalls Mira’s history of recklessness, and when Kenny’s father spies Mira with her married lover, the affluent and mannered community turns on this once-promising young woman. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA gripping story that takes the reader from the sun-soaked greens of a tony Westchester country club to the fluorescent-lit stand of a county courtroom, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Amateur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e asks: What happens when one small moment—a swing, a ball, a piece of string—changes the course of an entire life?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"pd-product-id\"\u003e0385551290\u003c\/span\u003e   \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEAN:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e9780385551298\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/strong\u003eChris Bohjalian\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDoubleday Books \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHardcover\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStreet Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAugust 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAugust 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Info:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 1.4\" H x 9.2\" L x 6.0\" W (1.2 lbs) 336 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis item is \u003cstrong\u003eReturnable\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDetailElements\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris Bohjalian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e is the #1 \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e bestselling author of twenty-five books, including \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Princess of Las Vegas, The Lioness, Hour of the Witch, Midwives, \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The Flight Attendant\u003c\/span\u003e, which was a Max series starring Kaley Cuoco. His other books include \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast;\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Double Bind\u003c\/span\u003e. His novels \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSecrets of Eden, Midwives, \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePast the Bleachers \u003c\/span\u003ewere made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. His novels have been selections of Oprah’s Book Club. He is also a playwright (\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Club, Midwives\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWingspan\u003c\/span\u003e). 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