{"product_id":"9781487013561","title":"Planet Earth : Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eInternational award-winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Planet Earth, Nicholas Ruddock moves nimbly through a range of styles—from conventional to flash-fiction to his unique mastery of the long sentence—in stories exploring themes of love and passion, all with an awareness of our species-specific carelessness burning up the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection showcases a gifted writer at the top of his game, each story fresh and unexpected: the time Mario Vargas Llosa sucker-punched Gabriel García Márquez at a theatre in Mexico City inspires a young Marxist couple's violent act of revenge in Toronto years later; an anxious young man finds solace in the employ of Prince, the musician; we get a haunting glimpse of Toronto's polio epidemic at its peak in 1953; a young Canadian student bears witness to the Algerian protests and police violence in 1961 Paris; a pair of naive young women find themselves involved with a mysterious circus troupe in Nice. These provocative but contemplative stories are paradoxically positive and quick-witted, with a humorous fondness for humans and all our failings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49471299191011,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781487013561-1.jpg?v=1788388930","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781487013561","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}