{"product_id":"george-falls-through-time-9780063463509b","title":"George Falls Through Time","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLess\u003c\/span\u003e meets the year 1300 in this exhilarating and thoughtfully genre-defying literary novel about a man transported through time in a moment of extreme stress, whose modern anxieties are replaced by medieval brutalities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewly laid off George’s internet bill is in his ex’s name. He’s got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he’s walking in London have just escaped. It’s pure undiluted stress that sends him into a spiral, all the way to the year 1300.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he comes to, George recognizes the same rolling hills of Greenwich Park. But the luxuries and phone service of modernity are nowhere. In their place are locals with a bizarre, slanted speech in awe of his foreign clothes, who swiftly toss him in a dungeon. Despite the barbarity of a medieval world, a servant named Simon helps George acclimate to a simpler, easier existence—until a summons from the King threatens to send his life up in flames.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGeorge Falls Through Time\u003c\/span\u003e is as much an inward journey as an outward one: an immersive exploration of identity and dislocation that pits present-day sensibilities against a raw and alien backdrop, a strangely perfect canvas for the absurd anxieties of our modern lives. It's a profound meditation on the nature of desire perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Ministry of Time\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"Incredibly entertaining and intelligent.\" —GARRARD CONLEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Big-hearted and inspired.\" —STEVEN ROWLEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Funny, surprising, profound.\" —GRANT GINDER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42870260039760,"sku":"9780063463509B","price":13.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780063463509-l.jpg?v=1785882088","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/george-falls-through-time-9780063463509b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}