{"product_id":"truly-like-lightning-paperback","title":"Truly Like Lightning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Duchovny\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former star Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evils of the modern world. Their insular existence--controversial, difficult, but Edenic--is upended when an ambitious young property developer, Maya Abbadessa, stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit, she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a cataclysmic chain of events. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaya, threatening to report the family to social services, convinces them to enroll three of the children in a nearby public school. Bronson and his wives agree that if Maya can prove that the kids do better in town than homeschooled in their desert oasis, they will sell her a piece of their priceless plot of land. Suddenly confronted with all the complications of the twenty-first century that they have tried to keep out, the Powerses must reckon with their way of life as they try to save it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTruly Like Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e, David Duchovny's fourth novel, is a heartbreaking meditation on family, religion, sex, greed, human nature, and the vanishing beauty of an ancient desert.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Duchovny\u003c\/b\u003e is a television, stage, and screen actor, as well as a singer-songwriter, screenwriter, director, and novelist. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eMiss Subways\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHoly Cow\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBucky F*cking Dent\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York and Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692456808511,"sku":"9781250829603","price":22.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/13b5303fef6adbce35634ffe0855d853.webp?v=1764995526","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/truly-like-lightning-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}