{"product_id":"9781399637022-offseason","title":"Offseason","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Phenomenal' MADELINE CASH, author of LOST LAMBS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA savage, hilarious and profound debut novel from\u003ci\u003e Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGranta \u003c\/i\u003econtributor Avigayl Sharp \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY\u003cbr\u003e'A startling fever dream of a novel' LUCY ROSE\u003cbr\u003e'So smart, weird and eerie . 'I recommend everyone buy it when it comes out' MADELINE CASH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOffseason\u003c\/i\u003e, our fiercely observant but self-deluded narrator finds herself teaching at an all-girls boarding school in a remote coastal town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn between manic lectures that veer from Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e to the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, she implicates everyone she meets in her quest to pin down where exactly her own life went wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlisteringly funny and transcendently deranged, \u003ci\u003eOffseason \u003c\/i\u003emarks the arrival of a wild new literary talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Indescribably brilliant . You've never read anything like it' ELIZABETH McCRACKEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A bonkers and beautifully written novel . Absorbing and original' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Yes, \u003ci\u003eOffseason \u003c\/i\u003eis hilarious, eccentric and gleefully mean-spirited, but just when you think you know what Sharp is doing, she will shatter your heart. I haven't read something so incisive, so slyly tender in years' LISA McINERNEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar' MICHAEL CHABON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57838421574006,"sku":"9781399637022","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41274313.jpg?v=1778969148","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399637022-offseason","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}