{"product_id":"harrow-by-joy-williams-9781800810020","title":"Harrow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her first novel since \u003ci\u003eThe Quick and the Dead\u003c\/i\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'When the book was over, I missed the awful, cleansing darkness of its eyes upon me '\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This is the apocalypse as reimagined by a committee headed by Dali, Kafka and Yorgos Lanthimos.'\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 LA Times Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRivetingly strange and delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, \u003ci\u003eHarrow\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of paradise lost and the reasons to try and recover something of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470767800556,"sku":"9781800810020","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781800810020-harrow.jpg?v=1775226458","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/harrow-by-joy-williams-9781800810020","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}