{"product_id":"shy-9781644452295b","title":"Shy","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eYou mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn’t hurt yourself like that.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGot your special meds, nutcase?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is escaping Last Chance, a home for “very disturbed young men,” and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe night is huge and it hurts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eShy\u003c\/span\u003e, Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Grief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/span\u003e and continued with \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLanny\u003c\/span\u003e. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eShy\u003c\/span\u003e is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42870675898448,"sku":"9781644452295B","price":10.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781644452295-l.jpg?v=1785901763","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/shy-9781644452295b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}