{"product_id":"chemistry-and-other-stories-by-tim-pears-9781526623416","title":"Chemistry and Other Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs good as any modern fiction you will read this year\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Best new short story collections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA wife compulsively digs in her garden. Two brothers, long estranged, reunite for a terse, heady summer. A woman flies to Krakow to see her adult son. At dusk, a teenage girl pushes her dying mother out into the sea. A small boy sits on his own in the cinema, entranced by the cowboys who light up the screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith these short stories, Tim Pears illuminates a series of blazing moments in quiet lives – the tragic, strange, funny and beautiful fragments that make and unmake us – and shines a light into the gulfs that lie between us and those who should know us best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711135273196,"sku":"9781526623416","price":22.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14741673482731.jpg?v=1754187531","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/chemistry-and-other-stories-by-tim-pears-9781526623416","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}