{"product_id":"belly-up-by-rita-bullwinkel-9781914198748","title":"Belly Up","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBelly Up\u003c\/em\u003e is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging greatly in their length, form, and tethering to a recognisable reality, the stories of \u003cem\u003eBelly Up\u003c\/em\u003e collectively question the boundaries of gender, death, and coupling, and all of the supplies, attention, and nutrients that people consume to subsist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFamiliar moments - a receptionist becomes fascinated with harp music; two high school girls debate taking gym class; a bored beauty corresponds with an inmate - pivot into unusual investigations of corporeality and selfhood. Fantastical stories - Floridian zombies have a living child; a self-aware snake who eats children has an identity crisis; prisoners perform magical surgeries - find humanity and warmth in the dark grotesque.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFull of the variety of the world, in an abundance of resonant sentences and images, \u003cem\u003eBelly Up\u003c\/em\u003e is the more deeply striking because it is also uncannily natural, observant, and compulsively readable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542934900972,"sku":"9781914198748","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781914198748.jpg?v=1749764819","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/belly-up-by-rita-bullwinkel-9781914198748","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}