{"product_id":"the-sickness-volume-1-9781941250617","title":"The Sickness Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA teenager in 1945 is suffocated by post- WWII nationalism. A tireless doctor in 1955 desperately tries to find the origin of a new illness. Though these two people are living seemingly disparate lives, decades apart, they will come to understand that their fates are irrevocably intertwined by a rare, horrifying sickness and an enigmatic figure who follows wherever they go. He is known only as The Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfined within their eras, they each race against time to escape The Man and find a cure before The Sickness collapses their worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis rich and disturbing comic spans four decades of American history to serve as a reminder that the terrors of yesterday are the terrors of today. A sprawling, ambitious, and genre-bending work exploring the socio-political strife that shaped the nation. It?s the crossbreed of I Love Lucy-era pop culture and bizarre body horror in a historical horror epic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Uncivilized Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043318202711,"sku":"9781941250617","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781941250617.jpg?v=1750957817","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sickness-volume-1-9781941250617","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}