{"product_id":"9781761380396","title":"Thunderhead","description":"Author: Darling, Miranda \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761380396 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2024 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 217mm x 144mm x 20mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescripition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Winona Dalloway begins her day - in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up - she doesn't know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother- unobtrusive, quietly going about her tasks. But within is a vivid, chaotic self, teeming with voices - a mind both wild and precise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd meanwhile, a storm is brewing ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Darkly funny, astute, timely - \u003ci\u003eThunderhead\u003c\/i\u003e's protagonist insists on being heard, and we as readers feel compelled to listen. To care. Such a fresh and lovely voice, full of humour, insight, and energy. I loved Winona - and her story.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Sofie Laguna\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThunderhead\u003c\/i\u003e takes the brewing storm of domesticity and cracks it open with incredible vulnerability, generosity, and humour. At once Rachel Cusk, at once Jenny Offill, and altogether entirely Miranda Darling, this powerful, restless, irresistible novel is essential reading.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Laura Jean Mckay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Set over one fever-pitched day ... It's a daring book, adopting the aesthetics of Deborah Levy with the velocity of a crime thriller and an off- kilter voice, deeply internal, darkly comic, clipped and Woolf-ish ... \u003ci\u003eThunderhead\u003c\/i\u003e brims with magazine- style musings - all those dizzying top notes, that intertextuality, the style. It's a strong, complex and self-aware voice, and it is the primary vehicle through which we gauge Winona's resilience and determination. If \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e were instead penned by a domestic violence survivor, it might read a little like \u003ci\u003eThunderhead\u003c\/i\u003e. For fans of Melissa Broder, Elizabeth Hardwick and Edwina Preston.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Mel Fulton, \u003ci\u003eBooks+Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45475750346910,"sku":"UBD-9781761380396","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761380396.jpg?v=1747884761","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761380396","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}