{"product_id":"9781447288695-legoland","title":"Legoland","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize-shortlisted author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of \u003ci\u003eLegoland\u003c\/i\u003e's stories begin with the seemingly every day, only for a turn of events to land them in an unsettling place where life's normal rules no longer apply. Whether he's writing about a child’s birthday party or the invasion of an unnamed country each story is full of Woodward's blacker-than-black humour, fearless surrealism, and poetic phrasing. Included here is his brilliant story 'The Family Whistle', shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegoland \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates Woodward's trademark gift for wit and surprise: his lithe prose carrying us from comedy to tragedy and back again within a single tale. It confirms him as one of the most gifted and original writers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Gerard Woodward falls squarely between the comic lunacy of American short-form virtuoso George Saunders and the everyday rhapsodies of Raymond Carver’ \u003ci\u003eTime Out\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":56451487793526,"sku":"9781447288695","price":12.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40025948.jpg?v=1775637956","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781447288695-legoland","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}