{"product_id":"pelican-child","title":"Pelican Child","description":"Nominated for the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award\n\nLauded 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.  \n\nFor readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders, these haunted stories examine the instincts separating us from the beastly and the divine.","brand":"Profile Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283241976152,"sku":"9781805228578","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781805228578_0f1f19d2-16dc-4e5a-8df8-13564c6b63a2.jpg?v=1770349549","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pelican-child","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}