{"product_id":"corpus-christi","title":"Bret Anthony Johnston: Corpus Christi [2015] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gorgeous, accomplished debut' David Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy internationally bestselling author Bret Anthony Johnston, WINNER of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eEFG Short Story Award 2017.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Corpus Christi, Texas - a town often hit by hurricanes - parents, children, and lovers come together and fall apart, bonded and battered by memories of loss that they feel as acutely as physical pain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA car accident joins strangers linked by an intimate knowledge of madness. A teenage boy remembers his father's act of sudden and self-righteous violence. A 'hurricane party' reunites a couple whom tragedy parted. And, in an unforgettable three-story cycle, an illness heals a man's relationship with his mother and reveals the odd, shifting fidelity of truth to love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting with tough humor, deep humanity, and a keen eye for the natural environment, Bret Anthony Johnston creates a world where cataclysmic events cut people loose from their 'regular lives, floating and spiraling away from where we had been the day before.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johnston, Bret Anthony","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48101552292179,"sku":"XV81473611542","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/johnston-bret-anthony-corpus-christi-xv81473611542-55766915940691.jpg?v=1727842988","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/corpus-christi","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}