{"product_id":"9781988784793","title":"The Pump","description":"Author: Sydney Hegele\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781988784793\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Invisible Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Jan 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 176\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 ReLit Awards\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and Shirley Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe small southern Ontario town known as The Pump lies at the crossroads of this world's violence-a tainted water supply, an apathetic municipal government, the Gothic decay of rural domesticity-and another's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Hegele's interconnected stories, no one is immune to The Pump's sacrificial games. Lighthouse dwellers, Boy Scouts, queer church camp leaders, love-sick and sick-sick writers, nine-year-old hunters, art-eaters-each must navigate the swamp of their own morality while living on land that is always slowly (and sometimes very quickly) killing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An inescapable, ferocious dream of a book. Good luck getting out.\"\u003cb\u003e-John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of \u003ci\u003eVanishing Monuments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[The] writing is beautiful... Nightmarish and yet somehow fantastical.\"-\u003ci\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875651408030,"sku":"ADS-9781988784793","price":37.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781988784793.jpg?v=1779754730","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781988784793","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}