{"product_id":"9780645565331","title":"The Terrible Event","description":"Author: David Cohen\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780645565331\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Transit Lounge\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jun 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen\u0026amp;#x27;s most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA public memorial's name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two attention-seeking activists campaign against exclusionary policies adopted by the gift shop at a suburban shopping mall. A customer service representative becomes obsessed with a colleague who has worked from home for so long, nobody in the company remembers her. A middle-aged father loses his marriage and falls in love again with a cherished but damaged childhood toy. An academic's research into roadside memorials takes a peculiar turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Cohen's sometimes bizarre yet pitch-perfect stories capture everyday horrors but are always shot through with a profound empathy and generosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Event\u003c\/i\u003e delivers not just one terrible event, but many events of varying degrees of terrible-ness. Death, destruction, disappearance, decline, defeat  it has something for everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wildly inventive. Deeply unsettling. Delightfully strange.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Event\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is Cohen's best, most hilarious book yet. I absolutely loved it.'  Bram Presser,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'These are not the stand-up comedian's one-liners; they have an awareness of the absurd, the surreal, the comic, in everyday life; the true comic's unsettling serious gaze at the strange ways we make sense of existence.'  Judges, Russell Prize for Humour Writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798820442270,"sku":"ADS-9780645565331","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780645565331.jpg?v=1778120124","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780645565331","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}