{"product_id":"a-thousand-lives-annabel-townsend-9781990863356","title":"A Thousand Lives: Pithy Essays from Book Shops, Coffee Pots and the COVID Crisis","description":"With an astounding sense of timing, Annabel Townsend signed a lease on a new bookstore venture, one week before the Covid-19 pandemic was declared. Not to be deterred by a mere global crisis, she decided that lockdowns were the perfect opportunity to get people reading. With the world growing ever more strange around it, the fledgling business began providing an essential form of escapism and solace in troubled times-books. Faced with nightmare landladies, temperature extremes, conspiracy theorists, and delivering books via bicycle, it soon became clear that Covid-19 was the least challenging part of operating the business.\u003cbr\u003eFramed by different works of fiction, these essays tell the stories of the bookstore, of Saskatchewan, and of the community of customers, writers, booksellers, and booklovers that surrounded the business during the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 crisis. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Thousand Lives\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is part-memoir, part-comedy and all true-because truth is always stranger than fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annabel Townsend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1990863353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781990863356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wood Dragon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Annabel Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742736888063,"sku":"9781990863356","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-thousand-lives-annabel-townsend-9781990863356","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}