{"product_id":"9780063463509-george-falls-through-time","title":"George Falls Through Time","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME\u003c\/i\u003e IS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Incredibly entertaining and intelligent.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e—GARRARD CONLEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Big-hearted and inspired.\" —STEVEN ROWLEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Funny, surprising, profound.\" —GRANT GINDER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Unputdownable.\" —LUNA MCNAMARA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e meets the year 1300 in this exhilarating and thoughtfully genre-defying literary novel about a man transported through time in a moment of extreme stress, whose modern anxieties are replaced by medieval brutalities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly laid off George’s internet bill is in his ex-boyfriend’s name. He’s got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he’s walking in London have just escaped. It’s pure undiluted stress that sends him into a spiral, all the way to the year 1300.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen he comes to, George recognizes the same rolling hills of Greenwich Park. But the luxuries and phone service of modernity are nowhere. In their place are locals with a bizarre, slanted speech in awe of his foreign clothes, who swiftly toss him in a dungeon. Despite the barbarity of a medieval world, a servant named Simon helps George acclimate to a simpler, easier existence—until a summons from the King threatens to send his life up in flames.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Falls Through Time \u003c\/i\u003eis\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas much an inward journey as an outward one: an immersive exploration of identity and dislocation that pits present-day sensibilities against a raw and alien backdrop, a strangely perfect canvas for the absurd anxieties of our modern lives. It's a profound meditation on the nature of desire perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57099947508086,"sku":"9780063463509","price":15.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39591523_fc2b2841-8fa5-47a7-9664-5f8f7587430a.jpg?v=1769088946","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780063463509-george-falls-through-time","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}