{"product_id":"pleasant-tales-brendan-connell-9781908125484","title":"Pleasant Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eAccording to inductive process, the more weed someone smokes, the more likely they are to eat a green apple. Billy Glandzk has been smoking too much pot and hates apples, so it's time for him to change his lifestyle. Justin Isis lives in a single tiny room in Ikebukuro but, through amore and refined fashion-sense, hopes to rise to higher spheres. Ricky Fishback is a bicycle cop who has spent too much time in the saddle, and his restless sex life is taking a turn for the worse. Can he get his mojo back? Carla Jo Arduini works at the Family Dollar Store, but her aspirations go higher--much higher. Will her faith guide her to success? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePleasant Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, a contrasting follow up to his critically acclaimed 2010 collection \u003cem\u003eUnpleasant Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, Brendan Connell has written ten unusual and colourful stories of contemporary life. The brittle and deranged mundanity that surrounds us is viewed through a lens that is both extremely perceptive and ever so slightly flawed, resulting in both an inverted projection of the familiar and a dose of the alien. These are modernist, sparse and slightly subversive expositions on the normal that perform a disjointed dance with the world you thought you knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brendan Connell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1908125489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781908125484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eibonvale Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Brendan Connell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939144532223,"sku":"9781908125484","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_898e9784-af05-4c2a-8baf-9ed303a69d47.jpg?v=1681439756","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pleasant-tales-brendan-connell-9781908125484","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}