{"product_id":"unexploded","title":"Unexploded","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnexploded\u003c\/i\u003e is Alison MacLeod's heartrending novel of love and prejudice in wartime Brighton.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMay 1940. Wartime Brighton. On Park Crescent Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son Philip anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a year of change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town and Evelyn desperate to feel useful begins reading to some of the prisoners. One of them is Otto Gottlieb a 'degenerate' German-Jewish. As Europe crumbles Evelyn's and Otto's mutual distrust slowly begins to change into something else which will shatter the structures on which her life her family and her community rest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Like a piece of finely wrought ironwork uncommonly delicate but also astonishingly strong and tensile . . . a novel of staggering elegance and beauty' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Compelling fast-paced powerful . . . the denouement is as heart-rending as it is unexpected' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'MacLeod's range - spanning the movingly real to the mysteriously surreal - is excitingly imaginatively realised and unified in awareness of the dark menace of love's uncertainty' \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison MacLeod was raised in Canada and has lived in England since 1987. She is the author of three novels \u003ci\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wave Theory of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnexploded\u003c\/i\u003e and of a collection of stories \u003ci\u003eFifteen Modern Tales of Attraction\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eUnexploded\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Chichester University and lives in Brighton.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9780141016078-001","offer_id":43819382997053,"sku":"9780141016078-001","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/4962763482238.jpg?v=1792014678","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/unexploded","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}