{"product_id":"this-day-and-age-mike-nicol-9780679742005","title":"This Day and Age","description":"With tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar, \u003ci\u003e This Day and Age\u003c\/i\u003e realizes the prophecy told to a newly elected president on the eve of his inauguration. After years of bountiful harmony will come plague and famine, during which a strange man-child with a Bible chained to his wrist and his army of the disenfranchised will gather strength in the most remote reaches of the land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mike Nicol joins the roster . . . of Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and the magical realists of Latin America.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Nicol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067974200X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679742005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.22w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/08\/1995 pg. 40","brand":"Mike Nicol","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441201197311,"sku":"9780679742005","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48324673-4508-424d-bffb-b030dd68750b.jpg?v=1777189377","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-day-and-age-mike-nicol-9780679742005","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}