{"product_id":"slim-pickings-paperback-1","title":"Slim Pickings - 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\u003eJohn Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlim Pickings is a gloriously rich and rum array of poems and vignettes largely drawn from the weird and wondrous delights of Oslo. The writing is a gritty and darkly humorous testament to the city's subterranean underbelly. Wacky encounters interweave throughout the collection. Unsavouriness lurks around every street corner, and inside the bars, if you scratch the surface, there's plenty of lurid prurience and puerility swilling about. Hughes sees the world from the paradoxical standpoint of a romantic cynic. His visions flash and rumble with an equal measure of contemptuous tenderness and melancholic restlessness. He has a playful ear, which bristles with soaked-up vernacular, but he also possesses an inner quietude, ripe with vivacious and lush imagery that creates philosophical interventions in the poetic narrative. Whether from the basement of the soul or the penthouse of the heart, Slim Pickings is a collection of candid and mischievously playful writing that will lower and elevate your imagination to the sublime and the ridiculous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 172\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352964219129,"sku":"9798331143428","price":21.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/xjIkjGsYOj9798331143428_3e51b8a6-36ff-422d-ab07-19e96de9e41b.webp?v=1769815939","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/slim-pickings-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}