{"product_id":"the-lost-country-9780571245963","title":"The Lost Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly Edgewater, discharged from the Navy and touched by a rising desperation, sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying. On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D.L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are. \u003cbr\u003eHounded at every turn by scams, vigilantes, grievous loss, and violence, Edgewater navigates the long road home, searching for a place that may be nothing more than memory.\u003cbr\u003eHailed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e as a seemingly effortless storyteller', with this novel William Gay once again shows why his work is often talked about alongside the great Southern novelists, William Faulkner, Flannery O''Connor and Cormac McCarthy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403089846615,"sku":"9780571245963","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571245963.jpg?v=1730482366","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-lost-country-9780571245963","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}