{"product_id":"legoland","title":"Legoland By Woodward, Gerard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of \u003ci\u003eLegoland\u003c\/i\u003e''s stories begin with the seemingly every day, only for a turn of events to land them in an unsettling place where life''s normal rules no longer apply. Whether he''s writing about a child’s birthday party or the invasion of an unnamed country each story is full of Woodward''s blacker-than-black humour, fearless surrealism, and poetic phrasing. Included here is his brilliant story ''The Family Whistle'', shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegoland \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates Woodward''s trademark gift for wit and surprise: his lithe prose carrying us from comedy to tragedy and back again within a single tale. It confirms him as one of the most gifted and original writers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Gerard Woodward falls squarely between the comic lunacy of American short-form virtuoso George Saunders and the everyday rhapsodies of Raymond Carver’ \u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57754141131134,"sku":"NW9781447288695","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781447288695.jpg?v=1785156185","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/legoland","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}