{"product_id":"9781918737240","title":"Life, the Universe and Goats - Esias Ryder","description":"�Welcome to the world's greatest comic novel byEsias Ryder, `Life, The Universe \u0026amp; Goats', a political satire that takesthe wee-wee from Life's hardest themes - the Pain of Life, a Life of Pain, theMeaning of Life, the Universe, the Deleterious Effects of English Literature,Penal Privatisation, the Electrocution of Liberals, and forgetting MaryPoppins. �Life's hardest themes - hardest sub-genus outthere: poetic comedy - and hardest tense - present. �`So stiffen the sinews and the groins for a sorrytale of scandal, sexual depravity, betrayal and extreme money laundering -treacherous traits that elevate the English goat to the eyes of a wondrousworld.' �England rots under the dictatorship of ElPresident� Tony Blair. England's flagship privatised prison of Lower Springwoodrots a sinking ship under the governorship of Archibald Hornblower `Gerbil'James. �Lodge' Ladies' Night in Chapter 3 is a tribute(viz Porterhouse Blue) to Tom Sharpe, after whom this novel is dedicated. �Popular phrases from poems and novels,Shakespeare, especially Hamlet, and from song lyrics, are assumed recognisableas not to warrant references.","brand":"Esias Ryder","offers":[{"title":"256 pages, 0 \/ 06\/09\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57441337246071,"sku":"9781918737240","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781918737240.jpg?v=1788689319","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781918737240","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}