{"product_id":"souvenir-museum","title":"Souvenir Museum By Mccracken, Elizabeth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''One of my favourite writers'' Nick Hornby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children''s game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half-brother. And on a trip to a water park with their son, two fathers each confront a deep-rooted personal fear. With sentences that crackle and spark and showcase her trademark wit, McCracken shows how the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''McCracken has a gift for spotting the comic potential in situations many of us have endured... Her prose is stippled with just-so observations'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''McCracken is a totally assured performer: even seemingly throwaway perceptions are often memorably poetic, and there is a hint of melancholy under the comedy'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This incisive, warm-blooded collection of stories is populated by outsiders... McCracken illuminates qualities of human nature through fragments of her characters'' lives'' \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57696429015422,"sku":"NW9781529115086","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529115086.jpg?v=1784273225","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/souvenir-museum","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}