{"product_id":"9780099480419-maggot-a","title":"A Maggot","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1736 and five travellers are journeying across Exmoor on horseback, their purpose unknown. One evening they stop at a village inn for some rest and, soon after, hear that a man has been hanged nearby and that another is missing. What follows is a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, rituals and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as the mystery swerves towards a startling vision at its centre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This altogether admirable novel serves, as all literature should, the forces of subversion' \u003cb\u003eAnthony Burgess, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The reader is carried headlong into a maze of violent death, bizarre sex, disguise and terror' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\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":40942987051105,"sku":"9780099480419","price":9.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32332364.jpg?v=1737186976","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099480419-maggot-a","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}