{"product_id":"dark-gray-damien-broderick-9781604599367","title":"Dark Gray: A Fantastic Books Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy father is the Rev. Daimon Keith. At the age of twenty, he was abducted near a school playground by small gray aliens. Indeed, Daimon was taken up into UFOs not just that once, but from infancy, and over and again. It caused him to devote his middle years to the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ, Time Traveler, and later Scionetics.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRosa \"Flake\" Rosch is a postmodern orphan. She's forgotten her mother, and her notorious abductee father Deems has vanished--again. \u003ci\u003eDark Gray\u003c\/i\u003e is Rosa's unreliable memoir of her father's zany life, from his hapless prankster youth in Australia to apotheosis as a UFO guru in the 21st century. It's the story of Rosa's indomitable mother, her weird quasi-brother Ben, Zelda the horsewife, and our whole tormented era, as we blast into hyperreality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTilted on the hard slab, he knows the heavy stink of the place. What awful crap do they suck up with those lipless little mouths? The gray doctor touches his forehead with a needle--sharp, glinting--and pushes it hard into his skull.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"That life may simultaneously reduce the living to both laughter and despair is a subject few novelists tackle in one bite. Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes succeed in the near-impossible task. \u003ci\u003eDark Gray\u003c\/i\u003e stands as one of the two great realist novels to tackle the notoriously non-realist theme of contact with extraterrestrials. It resides on the same (astral) plane as Alison Lurie's magisterial \u003ci\u003eImaginary Friends\u003c\/i\u003e.... A quite brilliant achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Rosaleen Love, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Total Devotion Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinalist for the Aurealis Award and the Ditmar Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Damien Broderick,Rory Barnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1604599367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781604599367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantastic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Damien Broderick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49164456132863,"sku":"9781604599367","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dark-gray-damien-broderick-9781604599367","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}