{"product_id":"down-time-andrew-martin-hardcover","title":"Down Time -- Andrew Martin, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA terribly funny and lovably louche novel about five friends growing older, if not always up, from Andrew Martin, author of \u003ci\u003eEarly Work\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCool for America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWithout Cassandra, Aaron would probably be dead. Fortunately, she won't leave him--despite the drinking, flirting, solipsism, armchair socialism, overspending, infidelity, catastrophic depression, and disparate but increasingly frequent spells of drug- and booze-addled debauchery. Unfortunately, she might be reaching the end of her rope. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCass and Aaron, like the other neurotic, ambivalent intellectuals in their orbit, are getting older. There's Malcolm, with his own alcoholism and marginally more successful writing career; his partner, Violet, a doctor with little patience for either; Antonia, a teaching fellow whose book about ecocide may get her tenure at a prestigious university near Harvard Square--yes, that one. When Sam, a charming trust-fund punk at the center of this loose network, dies suddenly and a global pandemic takes hold, all five must contend with the lives they've made: their desires and disappointments, habits and hang-ups, pathologies and addictions, and the possibilities of making art and being good as the earth whirls to its end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDown Time\u003c\/i\u003e marks the delightful return of Andrew Martin, the author of the pitch-perfect slacker classics \u003ci\u003eEarly Work\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCool for America\u003c\/i\u003e. Compulsively readable and contagiously intelligent, this is a wryly comic novel of settling down, selling out, growing up, and getting out that turns a terrifically funny and hyperliterate eye on our most desperately guarded ambitions: to love and be loved, to know and be known, to stay sane, if only just.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Andrew Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.44\" H x 5.52\" L x 1.19\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374617066\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52673181745451,"sku":"9780374617066","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780374617066.jpg?v=1780337275","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/down-time-andrew-martin-hardcover","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}