{"product_id":"9781805228578","title":"The Pelican Child : Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Williams, Joy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 4 December 2025 by Profile Books Ltd (Tuskar Rock) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 198 x 14 | 162g\u003cp\u003eLauded as the best story writer of our time, Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and shifting landscapes, we meet souls lost and found: from the twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune, who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds, to a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence, to the 'pelican child', who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs.  For readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders, these haunted stories examine the instincts separating us from the beastly and the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Williams, Joy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52509259104440,"sku":"9781805228578","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781805228578.jpg?v=1769596838","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781805228578","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}