{"product_id":"an-account-of-the-decline-of-the-great-auk-according-to-one-who-saw-it-isbn-9781473610859","title":"An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES\/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' A. L. Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal and metaphorical; and acts of cruelty and neglect but also of penance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome stories concern themselves with the present, and the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs - as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist and doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people's dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account - violent, occasionally funny and certainly tragic - of the decline of the Great Auk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44894981685477,"sku":"NP9781473610859","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/1559d0b2-352b-4b6a-ac6d-ab0200540f23.jpg?v=1767823492","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/an-account-of-the-decline-of-the-great-auk-according-to-one-who-saw-it-isbn-9781473610859","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}