{"product_id":"radio-belly-paperback","title":"Radio Belly - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBuffy Cram\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the surreal world of Buffy Cram's stories, someone or something slips beneath the skin of her already beleaguered characters. Stealing into their worlds, it rearranges the familiar into something strange and possibly threatening, making off with their emotional and even physical goods. \u003cbr\u003eA smug suburbanite becomes obsessed with the 'hybrids, ' the wandering mob of intellectual vagrants overrunning his complacent little cul de sac, snacking on pate and reciting poetry; a father and daughter's post-apocalyptic Pacific island civilization, built of floating garbage and sustained entirely by rubber, is beginning to fray, literally, revealing something disastrously like moss beneath its smooth synthetic skin; following an appendectomy, a young woman's belly starts transmitting what sound like Russian radio signals. \u003cbr\u003eInhabited, occupied, possessed--suddenly, the world as they knew it is no longer quite recognizable, not to mention safe-if it actually was safe before. But it's the surprising, often revelatory ways in which Cram's characters navigate through these strange new landscapes that imbues these stories with complexity, grace and luster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuffy Cram's fiction has appeared in \"The Bellevue Literary Review\" and \"Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow,\" and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Berlin \u0026amp; San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 215\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 24, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771665023264,"sku":"9781553659020","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ffa045ad0998475101920f37f23813e4.webp?v=1780390617","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/radio-belly-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}