{"product_id":"the-starved-lover-sings-colin-osullivan-9780993433153","title":"The Starved Lover Sings","description":"How much can one land take? \u003cbr\u003e How much can one man take? \u003cbr\u003e What if the rains kept coming? \u003cbr\u003e What if the huge waves kept crashing in? What if the plates kept shifting and volcanoes kept up their choking spew? What if neighbouring nations became more antagonistic and the rest of the world began to forget you? \u003cbr\u003e It's the not-too-distant-future and a certain Asian country is in physical and moral tatters. What was once a polite society has become fouled and corrupted. Part-time referee and full-time PE teacher, Tombo, stands in the middle of all this, trying to find fairness and balance in his own life, as things continue to crumble around him. Added to his personal miseries - missing-presumed-dead daughter, eerily silent wife, unrequited lusts - comes the unwanted, unwarranted attention of two, mean-spirited, wrathful adolescent girls, who have decided that he is to be their \"chosen one\". \u003cbr\u003e Can this harangued Everyman battle against the forces that envelop him, or will he too fall to the whims of the new dystopia? \u003cbr\u003e In this pulsing, provocative, visionary work, O'Sullivan couples his usual lyrical fervour with a philosophical acuity to present before us a trembling world that may not be too far away... \u003cbr\u003e As well as being an absurd existential novel it is also a political satire, and a cautionary tale about what may lay ahead, therefore a novel very much for our times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Colin O'Sullivan's writing is an antic, mordant and perverse plunge into strange and unnerving worlds.\" Colin Barrett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin O'Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0993433154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780993433153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Betimes Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.61d","brand":"Colin O'Sullivan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43927179919615,"sku":"9780993433153","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_24f2d403-8e24-47b4-8ea9-92fa953933b8.jpg?v=1681087314","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-starved-lover-sings-colin-osullivan-9780993433153","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}