{"product_id":"9780008647506","title":"Quint - Robert Lautner","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN, THE TIMES `Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER `Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century's first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG Before there was Jaws, there was. QUINT You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began. Quint: the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis, only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS. So much more than a fisherman - a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake. In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character. `Excellent. a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence' THE TIMES, Best Summer Reads `If Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar. one of this year's literary miracles' IRISH INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Lautner","offers":[{"title":"288 pages \/ 16\/01\/2025 \/ Historical fiction","offer_id":56965430509943,"sku":"9780008647506","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780008647506_6983d663-eb43-4daa-a79a-3e606e80daa4.jpg?v=1780924464","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780008647506","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}