{"product_id":"planet-earth-nicholas-ruddock-9781487013561","title":"Planet Earth","description":"International-award-winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline.\nIn Planet Earth, Nicholas Ruddock moves nimbly through a range of styles—from conventional to flash-fiction to his unique mastery of the long sentence—in stories exploring themes of love and passion, all with an awareness of our species-specific carelessness burning up the world.\nThis collection showcases a gifted writer at the top of his game, each story fresh and unexpected: the time Mario Vargas Llosa sucker-punched Gabriel García Márquez at a theatre in Mexico City inspires a young Marxist couple’s violent act of revenge in Toronto years later; an anxious young man finds solace in the employ of Prince, the musician; a haunting glimpse of Toronto’s polio epidemic at its peak in 1953; a young Canadian student bears witness to the Algerian protests and police violence in 1961 Paris; a pair of naïve young women find themselves involved with a mysterious circus troupe in Nice. These provocative but contemplative stories are paradoxically positive and quick-witted, with a humorous fondness for humans and all our failings.","brand":"House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51051241406752,"sku":"9781487013561","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781487013561.jpg?v=1781471365","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/planet-earth-nicholas-ruddock-9781487013561","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}