{"product_id":"young-once","title":"Young Once","description":"An NYRB Classics Original \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYoung Once\u003c\/i\u003e is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. It was his breakthrough novel, in which he stripped away the difficulties of his earlier work and found a clear, mysteriously moving voice for his haunting stories of love, nostalgia, and grief. It has also been called \"the most gripping Modiano book of all\" (\u003ci\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile's thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, is taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, is at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. In a Paris that is steeped in crime and full of secrets, they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67618413510899,"sku":"9781590179550","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/7432\/5312\/files\/imageloader_5984cc9d-c792-4958-96cd-be54b412f5f5.jpg?v=1790876511","url":"https:\/\/letterpressplay.com\/products\/young-once","provider":"Letterpress PLAY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}