{"product_id":"2940011252211","title":"The Girl with the Bomb Inside (A Novelette)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTony is 15 and he's in trouble. It's not that he secretly reads James Joyce and his schoolmates would kill him if they found out what a freak he was. It's not that he's trying to write his story and can't find the right voice. It's that his girlfriend, Janine, is pregnant, and in a couple of months everyone will know and his life will be over. So he's decided to end it himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in 1981, in the aftershock of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis's suicide, The Girl with the Bomb Inside is a 16,000-word novelette that explodes with all the filth and fury of a three-minute punk song, hammering at the bars of its teenage prison with a foul-mouthed and brutal depiction of a schoolyard pregnancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Smashwords edition also features a free sample chapter from Andy Conway's next novel, postmodern Hungarian campus romance, Train Can't Bring Me Home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andy Conway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068597584112,"sku":"2940011252211","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011252211_p0.jpg?v=1763548198","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011252211","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}