{"product_id":"august-blue-9781250338853b","title":"August Blue","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Man Who Saw Everything\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Cost of Living.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, Deborah Levy’s \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eAugust Blue\u003c\/span\u003e uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselves anew.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42872511692880,"sku":"9781250338853B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250338853-l.jpg?v=1785884121","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/august-blue-9781250338853b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}