{"product_id":"harrow-9781800810020b","title":"Harrow","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTimes\u003c\/span\u003e Paperback of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her first novel since \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Quick and the Dead\u003c\/span\u003e (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'When the book was over, I missed the awful, cleansing darkness of its eyes upon me ' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e Books of the Year 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is the apocalypse as reimagined by a committee headed by Dalí, Kafka and Yorgos Lanthimos.' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2021 \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eKirkus \u003c\/span\u003ePrize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2022\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e LA Times\u003c\/span\u003e Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/ Jean Stein Book Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKhristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a moment, then came back to life. After Khristen's boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and her mother disappears, she ranges across the dead landscape and finds a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call 'Big Girl'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRivetingly strange and delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eHarrow \u003c\/span\u003eis a tale of paradise lost and the reasons to try and recover something of it.","brand":"Serpent's Tail","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42820649582672,"sku":"9781800810020B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781800810020-l.jpg?v=1785880568","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/harrow-9781800810020b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}