{"product_id":"hourglass-9780349144986","title":"Hourglass","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e A short, exquisite novel about love, loss and making sense of the world - as heartbreakingly moving as it is outrageous and funny \u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003e ''A universal love story'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003e ''Beautiful, funny, profound ... read it in one glowing session'' New Statesman \u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003e ''A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that''s everyone.'' Hollie McNish \u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove builds up little by little and that''s why it makes people reach for words like root and sediment and other words to do with rocks and trees. But what about the dismantling? Does it happen that way too? Because it feels like it is happening much, much faster. And I am reaching for words like landslide and like wave and like storm ...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExquisitely crafted, wildly imaginative and as darkly funny as it is moving, \u003ci\u003eHourglass\u003c\/i\u003e is a revolutionary love story. It turns time upside down, combs the intimate wreckage of heartbreak for something universal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautiful, funny, profound\u003c\/b\u003e ... Read it in one glowing session * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eThe charms of \u003ci\u003eHourglass\u003c\/i\u003e, like those of the narrator himself, are insidious. This is \u003cb\u003ea sad book that is somehow wickedly fun to read\u003c\/b\u003e * LA Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn arresting, exquisitely told love story ... \u003cb\u003eif ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it.\u003c\/b\u003e * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHourglass\u003c\/i\u003e burnishes its ideas of love and agony with an almost mystical attention to feeling. \u003cb\u003eThis book truly glows in the heart of the reader\u003c\/b\u003e -- Max Porter\u003cbr\u003eEvocative, ecstatic, and saturated with off-kilter wit, \u003ci\u003eHourglass\u003c\/i\u003e renders heartbreak as both vividly, luminously particular, and intensely, intimately familiar. There are lines from this remarkable book etched all over my memory, indelible -- Alexandra Kleeman\u003cbr\u003eThis book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening -- Lena Dunham\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHourglass\u003c\/i\u003e will stay with me for a long time. Hypnotic. -- Lemn Sissay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Hollie McNish\u003cbr\u003eA stunning reimagining of the love story ... every word shines new and true -- Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure\u003cbr\u003eShockingly intimate and devastatingly funny, bleak and true -- Luke Kennard, author of The Answer to Everything\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a world. A broken dance floor of glass and gold, so rare and precious you barely believe it is real, but haunts you all day like a song. Vivid and brilliant. -- Greta Bellamacina\u003cbr\u003eThis is high-wire writing: a novel where every sentence counts. They add up to something profoundly honest and truly magical -- Matt Thorne\u003cbr\u003eThis is a beautiful book: by turns tough and tender, acerbically funny and deeply humane. Keiran Goddard's mind is a marvel. We are lucky to have him. -- Tabitha Lasley\u003cbr\u003eA story of doomed romance as touching as it is abstract * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA universal love story\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautiful and very funny\u003c\/b\u003e -- Brett Anderson\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47833071059287,"sku":"9780349144986","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349144986.jpg?v=1710341659","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hourglass-9780349144986","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}