{"product_id":"john-of-john-the-extraordinary-new-novel-from-the-booker-prize-winning-author-of-shuggie-bain","title":"John of John: The extraordinary new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e-bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSHUGGIE BAIN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eYOUNG MUNGO.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn Oprah's Book Club pick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘You finish the novel feeling emotionally enriched and slightly bereft at leaving its characters behind’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book is special' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- Colm Tóibín\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Passionate, liberating, and gorgeous'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMin Jin Lee \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant and rare' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- Ann Patchett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eElaine Feeney\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fierce, glorious sting of a novel' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- Lauren Groff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Stuart’s most consummate work of literature to date' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e- Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in beautiful, thoughtful prose that transports readers to lives and locales they will never know' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Intimate yet epic in scale . . . enthralling'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e - Guardian\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMiraculous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis beautiful story of literal and metaphorical homecoming is wholly satisfying' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Mail\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA capacious, ambitious novel, both swiftly readable and genuinely profound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e' - The Daily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A superb example of what a novel can do . . . I'd give him another Booker right away' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e- The Scotsman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fictionary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44191688491044,"sku":"9781035086962","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/3068\/3172\/files\/image.jpg?v=1779186109","url":"https:\/\/fictionarystore.com\/products\/john-of-john-the-extraordinary-new-novel-from-the-booker-prize-winning-author-of-shuggie-bain","provider":"Fictionary","version":"1.0","type":"link"}