{"product_id":"9781250022288","title":"Lookaway, Lookaway : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Wilton Barnhardt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteely and formidable, Jerene Jarvis Johnston sits near the apex of society in contemporary Charlotte, North Carolina, where old Southern money and older family skeletons meet the new wealth of bankers, land speculators, and social climbers. Jerene and her Civil War reenactor husband, Duke, have four adult children—sexually reckless real estate broker Annie; earnest minister Bo; gay-but-don't-tell-anyone Joshua; and naive, impressionable college freshman Jerilyn. Jerene's brother, Gaston, is an infamously dissolute novelist and gossip who knows her secrets and Duke's; while her sister, Dillard, is a reclusive prisoner of her own unfortunate choices. When a scandal threatens the Johnston family's status and dwindling finances, Jerene swings into action...and she will stop at nothing to keep what she has and preserve her legacy. Wilton Barnhardt's \u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is a headlong, hilarious narrative of a family coming apart on the edge of the old South and the new, and an unforgettable woman striving to hold it together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lacerating but affectionate, as exuberant as it is shrewd, \u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is a Southern novel so sure-footed the only real question for Barnhardt is, \"What took you so long?\"…By the end I felt like a starving man at a buffet--sated but still hungry. That's not really a knock. \u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare thing: an excellent long novel that's not long enough.” —\u003ci\u003eMalcolm Jones, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance. The book's careful, formal composition is invisible as you read, and it's a beautiful read, sad and savagely funny, one place inexplicably contained in the other.” —\u003ci\u003eCathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A dishier array of secrets animates \u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilton Barnhardt's big, enveloping novel about a status-conscious North Carolina family.” —\u003ci\u003eJanet Maslin, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Scathing yet touching, this is a delicious saga of Old South meets New, a story of America lurching toward the future.” —\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A delicious romp with a dysfunctional Southern Family.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Barnhardt's fourth novel is a revelation: witty, savage and bighearted all at once, it is \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e Southern novel for the 21st century.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus (Starred Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dixieland was never so dishy nor dysfunctional as in Barnhardt's ribald send-up of the conflagration that ensues when Old South tradition confronts New South tackiness…Barnhardt's satirical scorching of southern culture comes in second only to Sherman's fiery march.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“North Carolina native Barnhardt's frothy, satirical latest (after \u003ci\u003eShow World\u003c\/i\u003e) is Southern gothic at its most decadent and dysfunctional.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Barnhardt bursts forth with a big book that has everyone bustling.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An effervescent novel.” —\u003ci\u003eBookPage Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One helluva barn burner.” —\u003ci\u003eElle Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sprawling, generous, delightful...I didn't want it to end. \u003ci\u003eLookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is both dishy and literary, but like all good novels, there's a nourishing quality as well.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Charlotte Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Barnhardt delivers a knowing, wry and delightfully catty satire...there's more than a little Tom Wolfe here, with a dash of family feuding, Pat Conroy-style...As with the best satire, though, there's a strong vein of affection.” —\u003ci\u003eStar News Wilmington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild romp through the South, and therefore the history of our nation, written by an absolute ringmaster of fiction. Wilton Barnhardt is back baby, and he's coming at you with everything he's got. Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy!” —\u003ci\u003eAlice Sebold, New York Times bestselling author of The Lovely Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Move over, Tom Wolfe! There's a new guy in town with the ultimate--no, make that penultimate--take on the New South. Better take a powder, pour a big gin, and put your feet up before you start reading. Writing with brilliance and brio, Wilton Barnhardt has penned a hilarious satire which often has surprising depth and hits way too close to the truth.” —\u003ci\u003eLee Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Oral History and The Last Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a raucous novel, bursting with noise and color, immensely and immediately entertaining. And yet it's impossible not to realize how very, very smart it is. Wilton Barnhardt is a masterful storyteller, and \u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is high comedy at its brilliant best.” —\u003ci\u003eJoshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wilton Barnhardt has written the big Southern novel I've been wanting to read all my life. I can't think of a book that better expresses the complexity of exactly where our Southern culture is right now. His insights into his characters - both male and female - are rich and genuinely hilarious, expressed with a dangerous level of humor and pain. \u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is entirely remarkable. I finished reading it and started again on page one to see how he did it. (I still don't know.)” —\u003ci\u003eMark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama and Georgia Bottoms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wilton Barnhardt's \u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is our best 21st Century update so far of Anthony Trollope's \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Live Now\u003c\/i\u003e. This literary romp is a new South vision with a ferocious vengeance, a heady stew of debutantes, Internet dating, Confederate War reenactors, real estate scandals, and \u003ci\u003eGarden \u0026amp; Gun\u003c\/i\u003e mores. Wicked family secrets are stirred in with antebellum lore and the Obama-era politics of race, gender and sex, all showing us, truly and newly, a Global Dixie.” —\u003ci\u003eRandall Kenan, author of The Fire This Time, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, and A Visitation of Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fresh and innovative take on the traditional family saga...the new Barnhardt goes down smooth and delivers with a kick.” —\u003ci\u003eKaren Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLookaway, Lookaway\u003c\/i\u003e is an often humorous, sometimes unsettling, ultimately poignant romp through a \"New\" South still reluctant to let go of its past. Barnhardt's novel earns a place on the bookshelf between J.K. Toole's \u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/i\u003e and Tom Wolfe's \u003ci\u003eI Am Charlotte Simmons\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eRon Rash, author of Serena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed Chapters Indigo Best of the Year (2013), Long-listed Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year (2013), Long-listed Slate Book Review Best Books of the Year (2013)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250022288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40631229776078,"sku":"9781250022288","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_002d49e0-158a-4a5f-a662-956e0b2c2ee1.jpg?v=1638840898","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250022288","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}