{"product_id":"facing-the-tank","title":"Facing The Tank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Gale''s early novel, FACING THE TANK is a witty, eccentric story of clergy, scandal and English eccentrics \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e ''Made me laugh out loud'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Professor Evan Kirby, author of a successful book on Hell, moves to Barrowcester in the south England expecting to find the very epitome of a cathedral society of gentle clergymen and coffee mornings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat he encounters instead is a small city thrown into chaos by scandalous pregnancies, a Satanic summoning of a young feral girl and strange, supernatural events that threaten to rock the hitherto genteel, church going community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Gale speedily unleashes his merrily black mischief. The uncovering of the sadness behind the doilies and twinsets is in the best tradition of black humour'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat readers have loved about FACING THE TANK:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebrilliantly observed story, dark, humorous, sometimes subtly, sometimes uproarious'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt takes as the main theme a black comedy of religious experience and small town life, and applies several hard twists to the plot. Like Trollope''s Barchester, but with drugs, AIDS and miracles'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57383480197502,"sku":"NW9781472255549","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781472255549.jpg?v=1778253506","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/facing-the-tank","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}