{"product_id":"august-9781847088130","title":"August","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter his parents' divorce, August struggles to start over again in a new town. And when a shocking act of violence pushes him off course, he is once more on the move: this time to rural Montana, where he takes a job on a ranch. Here, he learns that even the smallest communities have secrets and even the most broken of families still have a bond. Unfolding against an epic American landscape, August is a magnificent, moving story about the joys and traumas that irrevocably shape us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wink has a precise, clear prose style...The landscape is a character in itself - well-known, but changeable... Wink skilfully imbues his writing with a subtle sense of foreboding that never leaves... In this tightly controlled yet highly unpredictable novel we discover what it is like to come of age in a part of America that is always changing, always the same' - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Callan Wink [...] reconfigures the landscape of the American West' - \u003ci\u003eIrish \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49413633081687,"sku":"9781847088130","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781847088130.jpg?v=1730520863","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/august-9781847088130","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}