{"product_id":"delphi-paperback","title":"Delphi - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClare Pollard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2022 * \"Clever and surprising.\" --\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e * \"Brilliantly funny.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e * \"Ingenious.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e * \"Powerful.\" --\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA captivating debut novel about a classics professor immersed in research for a new book on a prophecy in the ancient world who confronts chilling questions about her own life just as the pandemic descends--for readers of Jenny Offill, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Sally Rooney. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCovid-19 has arrived in London, and the entire world quickly succumbs to the surreal, chaotic mundanity of screens, isolation, and the disasters big and small that have plagued recent history. As our unnamed narrator--a classics professor immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies--navigates the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes obsessed with predicting the future. Shifting her focus from chiromancy (prophecy by palm reading) to zoomancy (prophecy by animal behavior) to oenomancy (prophecy by wine), she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her very own home, and when she finally does, the threat has already breached the gates. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrainy and ominous, imaginative and funny, \u003ci\u003eDelphi\u003c\/i\u003e is a snapshot and a time capsule--it vividly captures our current moment and places our reality in the context of myth. Clare Pollard has delivered one of our first great pandemic novels, a mesmerizing and richly layered story about how we keep on living in a world that is ever-more uncertain and absurd.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClare Pollard lives with her husband and two children in London. At nineteen, she published her first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Heavy Petting Zoo\u003c\/i\u003e. She has since published four more collections of poetry with Bloodaxe, most recently \u003ci\u003eIncarnation\u003c\/i\u003e. Her play \u003ci\u003eThe Weather\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. She has been involved in numerous translation projects, including cotranslating \u003ci\u003eThe Sea-Migrations\u003c\/i\u003e by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf which received a PEN Translates award, and translating \u003ci\u003eOvid's Heroines\u003c\/i\u003e, which she toured as a one-woman show in the UK. She is the poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Idler\u003c\/i\u003e and the former editor of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent book was a nonfiction title, \u003ci\u003eFierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eDelphi\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.38 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47240815575289,"sku":"9781982197902","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RnR2TG9jMm5ScWp5QndHeGJkeldOUT09.webp?v=1768574627","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/delphi-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}