{"product_id":"lanny-paperback","title":"Lanny - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMax Porter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eGrief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land's past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eLanny\u003c\/i\u003e, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in \u003ci\u003eGrief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e. This brilliant novel will ensorcell readers with its anarchic energy, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. \u003ci\u003eLanny\u003c\/i\u003e is a ringing defense of creativity, spirit, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world, and it solidifies Porter's reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMax Porter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eGrief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize and The Sunday Times\/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, and was short-listed for The Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.4 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770391658784,"sku":"9781644450208","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7814af32bc5bb4e9a0471b655d69d8e8.webp?v=1780370760","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lanny-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}