{"product_id":"question-7-hardcover-1","title":"Question 7 - Hardcover","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\u003eRichard Flanagan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Narrow Road to the Deep North, \u003c\/i\u003ea reckoning with the author's life and family, and the role of fiction in our times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A spectacular mixture of fierce energy and then control, care. It is a kind of reckoning, Richard Flanagan with his father and his mother, Tasmania with its past, Japan with its past, the author with himself. It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eColm T?ib?n, author of \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSometimes I wonder why we keep returning to beginnings--why we seek the single thread we might pull to unravel the tapestry we call our life...\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Flanagan has been described by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e as \"one of our greatest living novelists\" and as \"among the most versatile writers in the English language\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Narrow Road to the Deep North\u003c\/i\u003e and the Commonwealth Prize for \u003ci\u003eGould's Book of Fish\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47189987066105,"sku":"9780593802335","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/n5oSOMX5ln9780593802335_bc613ea2-6265-41a9-ab4c-443eb7a68a23.webp?v=1767884782","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/question-7-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}