{"product_id":"9781911547747","title":"Real Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Taylor, Brandon, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/07\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 327 pages\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Daunt Books,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Daunt Books,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781911547747\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that’s a world away from his childhood in Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn’t go back for the funeral, and he hasn’t told his friends – Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeftly zooming in and out of focus, Real Life is a deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire, and overcoming pain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35547823571097,"sku":"9781911547747","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781911547747_44653eb5-697c-4593-8695-43d2cf02eaff.jpg?v=1597581082","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781911547747","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}