{"product_id":"glyph-9780593701584","title":"Glyph","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our darkest hours.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosts don't exist.  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey don't. End of. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStory, however.  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is haunting. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything tells it.  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs it imaginary? Is it real?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat to do? She phones her sister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a chiarascuro dance through our increasingly bellicose era, \u003ci\u003eGlyph \u003c\/i\u003easks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, it's about what are our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness. This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733857132887,"sku":"9780593701584","price":22.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/glyph-9780593701584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}