{"product_id":"9781913505684","title":"You, Bleeding Childhood","description":"Author: Michele Mari\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781913505684\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: And Other Stories\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Nov 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 128\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItaly's great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before the latest vogue for auto fiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised on comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made for positively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well grow up beastly - or never grow up at all. Waking or sleeping, the obsessions of Mari's youth seem to colour his every adult thought. \u003ci\u003eYou, Bleeding Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e stands as his first attempt to catalog this cabinet of wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCult classics since their first publication, these loosely connected stories stand as the ideal introduction to an encyclopedic fantasist on a par with Kafka, Poe, and Borges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861471121566,"sku":"ADS-9781913505684","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781913505684.jpg?v=1779252358","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781913505684","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}