{"product_id":"perfume-burned-his-eyes","title":"Perfume Burned His Eyes","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePerfume Burned His Eyes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMichael Imperioli\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781617756207\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAkashic Books, Ltd.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[T]he actor's first novel is a quintessential New York story: A teenager moves from Queens to Manhattan, discovering a world populated with drugs, sex, a witch, and Lou Reed. It's like a vivid walk through the city and adolescence, reveling in their grit and pathos.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Vividly imagined, compelling, and sympathetic, \u003cem\u003eThe Perfume Burned His Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e convinces with the force of its emotional intensity.\" --Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew is a sixteen-year-old boy living in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 1976. After he loses his two most important male role models, his father and grandfather, his mother uses her inheritance to uproot Matthew and herself to a posh apartment building in Manhattan. Although only three miles away from his boyhood home, \"the city\" is a completely new and strange world to Matthew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Matthew soon befriends (and becomes a factotum of sorts to) Lou Reed, who lives with his transgender girlfriend Rachel in the same building. The artistic-shamanic rocker eventually becomes an unorthodox father figure to Matthew, who finds himself head over heels for the mysterious Veronica, a wise-beyond-her-years girl he meets at his new school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The novel is written from the point of view of Matthew at age eighteen, two years after the story begins, and concludes with an epilogue in the year 2013, three days after Lou Reed's death, with Matthew in his fifties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Perfume Burned His Eyes | Michael Imperioli | Hardcover | 9781617756207 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks E 1723777","offer_id":48167379009688,"sku":"1723777","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61PmwRBWa9L.jpg?v=1771945301","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/perfume-burned-his-eyes","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}