{"product_id":"9781474624923","title":"Climbers","description":"Author: M. John Harrison\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781474624923\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orion\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 23 Aug 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf'\u003c\/b\u003e Olivia Laing\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today'\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Macfarlane\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape'\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Myers\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRetreating from the ruins of his marriage, Mike leaves London for the wildness of the Yorkshire moors, where he falls in with a group of climbers - a band of misfits and mavericks bound by the pursuit of the unattainable: the perfect climb.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTravelling from abandoned urban quarries to misty, lichened crags, Mike discovers an intensity of experience - a wash of pain, fear and excitement - that causes the rest of his world to recede. Increasingly addicted to the adrenaline, folklore and camaraderie of the sport, he begins to lose his grip on the line between passion and obsession - at a cost.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46375459618974,"sku":"ADS-9781474624923","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781474624923.jpg?v=1767671192","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781474624923","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}