{"product_id":"balloon-dog-paperback","title":"Balloon Dog - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the life you are living is no longer the life you imagined? When you are well and truly stuck? A darkly comic tale of longing and legacy, Balloon Dog, the fourth novel from best-selling ghostwriter Daniel Paisner, prompts readers to consider what it means to leave a mark and what it takes to be swept up in the same currents that move almost everyone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brazen art heist pushes our protagonists to reflect on the choices they've made-and the ones that have been made for them. Set in the near- present, the story turns on the ill-conceived theft of a high-end Jeff Koons sculpture, lifted in plain sight from its perch beside a luxurious mountain home in Park City, Utah, and follows the musings, misadventures, and meeting of minds of a Long Island writer in midlife crisis and the art thief behind the ill conception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBalloon Dog poses two central questions: Is the transformative power of art enough to lift us from our days? And what is art, anyway?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68289861091551,"sku":"9781646636976","price":21.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GtmC-x3z8z9781646636976.webp?v=1792857047","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/balloon-dog-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}