{"product_id":"9781770866690-lost-dogs","title":"Lost Dogs","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in the most unexpected ways as they search to create meaning and relationships in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a search for a lost dog propels a group of unconnected characters into a difficult journey of self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA university English sessional teacher searches for his missing blind pit bull, not entirely aware that his relationship is coming unravelled. Katherine, his girlfriend, pays far more attention to her walk-on role in an alternative theatre production. Fourteen-year-old Becca struggles to get her mother’s attention, while her mother provides calorie-wise snacking and fashion advice and dates Becca’s psychologist. Karl fails to control his embarrassing and shameful bad habit at his dead-end telemarketing job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePagé weaves together narratives that speak of people adrift in the conflicting tides of the first decades of the twenty-first century in a novel that echoes the works of Lynda Barry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41552179986529,"sku":"9781770866690","price":8.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27418203.jpg?v=1721755321","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781770866690-lost-dogs","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}