{"product_id":"9781961341050","title":"The Mystery Guest","description":"Author: Gregoire Bouillier\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781961341050\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 28 Aug 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 104\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 'frank and wry, mad and graceful' (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) true story about getting dumped, and getting over it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Gregoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without warning, five years before. And he couldn't have guessed why she was calling: not to say she was sorry, not to explain why she'd vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party. A birthday party. For a woman he'd never met.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the unlikely but true account of how one man got over a poken heart, regained his faith in literature, participated  by mistake  in a work of performance art, threw away his turtlenecks, spent his rent money on a 1964 bordeaux that nobody ever drank, and fell in love again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed one of the year's best books by \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e when it first appeared in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is a 'darkly hilarious...odyssey...that wends its loopy way toward yes' (\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46688060670110,"sku":"ADS-9781961341050","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781961341050.jpg?v=1775631585","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781961341050","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}