{"product_id":"slipping","title":"Slipping","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Albert Jackson, a middle-aged school teacher, catches a glimpse of the infinite universe and his own tiny insignificance he cannot shake himself free of regret for a life all but squandered. In a blind and demented attempt to salvage something from his life, he sets off, half-lucidly, on a libertine mission to reclaim life, to live it exclusively on his terms. But the wild and sinister crime he plots, so characterised by delusion, sets him on a path to irreversible destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncarcerated after his crime, at the once prestigious Reil Institute, and in a bid to make spiritual and cosmic amends, Albert Jackson employs the guile of a local novelist, Charlie Vaughan, to tell his story. In the telling of Albert’s story, Charlie drives the narrative onward and backward, forcing Albert to confront the horrors of his crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the inadequacy of Albert’s initial confession forces Charlie to search further afield, he must cede control of the narrative to a range of other narrators too, among them key witnesses to the events leading up to Albert’s crime and a strange third-person account composed by Albert himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlipping\u003c\/em\u003e is a darkly humorous novel about life and love, ambition, bitter disappointment and the cost of committing the unforgivable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32113985814611,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781628971712.jpg?v=1765300543","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/slipping","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}