{"product_id":"just-a-howl-will-richter-9781459757547","title":"Just a Howl","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinding humour in desolation and beauty in the absurd, this darkly comic story collection chronicles our struggle for control in an uncontrollable world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn eruption of violence at a book reading. A doomed infatuation at the dawn of a plague. A married couple finding their carefully balanced lives as lighthouse keepers upended when they rescue a young woman from drowning. An oil executive spiralling into self-doubt as he is slowly swallowed by a snake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in prepper cabins and dentist offices, ivory towers and backwoods cults, these and other stories tell of a Canadian west made new and strange. Equipped with a gallows humour and a keen sense of the loneliness, irrationality, and unexpected cruelties of modern life, \u003ci\u003eJust a Howl\u003c\/i\u003e explores the many ways the twenty-first century corrodes our every attempt to connect to one another, as all the while a backdrop of catastrophe -- personal, societal, and ecological -- tilts the comic into the tragic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Will Richter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1459757548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459757547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rare Machines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Will Richter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001638297855,"sku":"9781459757547","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/just-a-howl-will-richter-9781459757547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}