{"product_id":"9781805228578","title":"The Pelican Child : Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award - Joy Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for the PEN\/Jean Stein Book AwardLauded as the best story writer of our time, Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and shifting landscapes, we meet souls lost and found: from the twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune, who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds, to a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence, to the \"pelican child\", who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs. For readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders, these haunted stories examine the instincts separating us from the beastly and the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joy Williams","offers":[{"title":"176 pages \/ 04\/12\/2025 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57110686269815,"sku":"9781805228578","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781805228578_7f335f60-e21c-4089-a537-e407f842ddca.jpg?v=1781001510","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781805228578","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}