{"product_id":"9780702263422","title":"Permafrost","description":"Author: Norman, SJ\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780702263422\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Queensland Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 28 Sep 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVisual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural \u003ci\u003eKill Your Darlings\u003c\/i\u003e Manuscript Award, SJ Norman turns their hand to fiction with spectacular results.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis brilliant collection of short fiction explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations - from small-town Australia to Hokkaido to rural England - \u003ci\u003ePermafrost\u003c\/i\u003e is united by the power of the narratorial voice, with its auto-fictional resonances, dark wit and swagger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether recounting the confusion of a child trying to decipher their father and stepmother's new relationship, the surrealness of an after-hours tour of Auschwitz, or a journey to wintry Japan to reconnect with a former lover, \u003ci\u003ePermafrost\u003c\/i\u003e unsettles, transports and impresses in equal measure.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198022758558,"sku":"UBD-9780702263422","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780702263422.jpg?v=1787745721","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780702263422","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}