{"product_id":"whats-eating-gilbert-grape-pb-w3","title":"Peter Hedges: WHATS EATING GILBERT GRAPE - W3 [2017] paperback","description":"THE BOOK: Gilbert Grape has a lot going on. He is a grocery store assistant, the son of a hugely obese woman, brother to five clashing siblings and lover to a middle-aged married mother-of-two. He also has a killer crush on the beautiful mysterious girl who has just arrived in his dwindling hometown. But by far his biggest burden - and his greatest love - is caring for his mentally-disabled brother Arnie: a sweet, fun-loving, obstinate boy, an accidental daredevil, a near constant flight risk and a serial scaler of water towers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Told through the eyes of its wryly-humorous hero, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a heartfelt, sardonic story of a dysfunctional family, brotherly love and the desires of a young man stranded by his sense of duty, but dreaming of escape.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An elegy for those outsiders and misfits who find themselves side-tracked from the American Dream...\" - The New York Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE AUTHOR: Peter Hedges is an American novelist, playwright, film director and screen-writer. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay About a Boy. What's Eating Gilbert Grape is his debut novel and was turned into a 1993 film starring Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis.","brand":"Hedges, Peter","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42323455672505,"sku":"9780993046742","price":12.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/hedges-peter-whats-eating-gilbert-grape-pb-w3-9780993046742-32641412595897.jpg?v=1656218707","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/whats-eating-gilbert-grape-pb-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}