{"product_id":"scarecrow-has-a-gun-a-novel-9781945501814","title":"Scarecrow Has a Gun: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNever trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSean Whittlesea was there when his wife was murdered. He saw the light leave her eyes. He held her dead body in his arms.  He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his imagination serves up an endless chain of scenarios. The truth, however, remains hidden in the vault of his memory, and the key is nowhere to be found.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly two decades later, Sean, now remarried and a father of two, wins a bizarre contest hosted by his eccentric boss. The prize is the Memory Palace, a state-of-the-art black box that purportedly allows its possessor to relive every moment he has ever experienced, playing out all the memories on a screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the small machine at first appears to be the answer to the mystery surrounding the death of his wife, it instead upends Sean’s life. He pushes his family further and further away as the Memory Palace forces him to confront harsh realities and difficult questions that he lacks the strength to face or answer. Spiraling downward, Sean encounters increasingly harrowing challenges that force him to realize that his memory is not the only thing at stake. To recover the truth about his past, Sean must fight for his very life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Suffused with an atmosphere that suggests J.G. Ballard and Paolo Coelho chained together in a basement while a carbon monoxide alarm goes off, \u003cem\u003eScarecrow Has a Gun\u003c\/em\u003e is at once disquieting and illuminating, eerie and sincere.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Martin Seay, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Mirror Thief\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Michael Paul Kozlowsky’s brutally eccentric \u003ci\u003eScarecrow Has a Gun\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterclass in Cartesian storytelling—simultaneously evoking Christopher Nolan’s clockwork precision and JG Ballard’s ultra-modern sense of irony.”\u003cb\u003e— Jeff Chon, author of \u003ci\u003eHashtag Good Guy With a Gun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Scarecrow Has a Gun is a propulsive read that spirals deep into the intersections of memory, technology, and the shifting boundaries between the real and the unreal.\"\u003cb\u003e— Nicholas Rombes, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing\u003c\/i\u003e and T\u003ci\u003ehe Ramones’ Ramones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A whodunit wrapped inside sci-fi story and blended with a compelling and clear-eyed examination of how memory works.\"\u003cb\u003e— Brett Riley, author of \u003ci\u003eComanche, Lord of Order,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFreaks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With writing that's both sharp and dense, Michael Paul Kozlowsky's \u003ci\u003eScarecrow Has A Gun\u003c\/i\u003e is a labyrinthine mystery that feels as if David Cronenberg and Don DeLillo had collaborated on a Philip K. Dick adaptation. It's a gut-punch meditation on the way our brains process mediation, memory, trauma, and grief.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTex Gresham, author of \u003ci\u003eSunflower, Heck, Texas,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Is Strange June\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This engrossing and inventive novel entertains on multiple levels. It’s a mind-bending mystery, in which the pursuit of the truth about his wife’s murder threatens the main character’s trust in his powers of perception and his very sense of self. It’s a horror-show-worthy take on corporate ambition, overreach, and villainy.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eBeth Castrodale, author of \u003ci\u003eI Mean You No Harm, Marion Hatley\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn This Ground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What an original and captivating sci-fi read! I totally loved the real life references and often found myself so intrigued I had to then go search for confirmation and further information. Things really ramped up towards the end and I was glued to the text. I enjoyed the dark undercurrent and found the ending deeply satisfying as well as super clever.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eCaroline Lewis, Librarian at St. Jospeh’s College Mildura \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Imbrifex Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020947947863,"sku":"9781945501814","price":10.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781945501814.jpg?v=1750784803","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scarecrow-has-a-gun-a-novel-9781945501814","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}