{"product_id":"pugilist-at-rest","title":"Pugilist At Rest","description":"\u003cp\u003eThom Jones’s magnificent collection of stories presents a brutal and authentic vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. \u003ci\u003eThe Pugilist at Rest\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an America of Vietnam vets and ex-boxers, of bitter lovers in trailer parks, of lives passing in brilliant epileptic flickers. These ferocious, semi-autobiographical stories form the debut collection by a distinctive and hugely talented writer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThom Jones was discovered as a writer relatively late in life, in his forties, by the fiction editors at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, who published many of Jones’s stories from the early 1990s onwards. The title story of this collection went on to win the O. Henry Award for Best Short Story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318792790398,"sku":"NW9780571342129","price":8.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571342129.jpg?v=1778246791","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/pugilist-at-rest","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}