{"product_id":"9781526629777","title":"No One Is Talking About This : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Lockwood, Patricia\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 6 January 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 19 | 162g\u003cp\u003e‘Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation’ Namita Gokhale‘A masterpiece’ Guardian‘I really admire and love this book’ Sally Rooney ‘An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster’ Daily Mail ‘I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book’ David Sedaris‘A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits’ Douglas Stuart* WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 ** A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour’ Rowan WilliamsA 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Evening Standard,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Times,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e New Statesman,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Red,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Observer,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Independent,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lockwood, Patricia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465734230200,"sku":"9781526629777","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781526629777.jpg?v=1734766732","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781526629777","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}