{"product_id":"9780007542529","title":"Vulgar Things","description":"The second novel from Lee Rourke, author of the cult hit ‘The Canal’.Jon Michaels – a divorced, disaffected and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in North London – wakes one morning to a phone call informing him that his uncle has been found dead in his caravan on Canvey Island. Dismissed from his job only the day before and hung-over, Jon reluctantly agrees to sort through his uncle’s belongings and clear out the caravan. What follows is a quixotic week on Canvey as Jon, led on by desire and delusion, purposeful but increasingly disorientated, unfolds a disturbing secret, ever more enchanted by the island – its landscape and its atmosphere.Haunted and haunting, ‘Vulgar Things’ is part mystery, part romance, part odyssey: a novel in which the menial entrances and the banal compels.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068989292784,"sku":"9780007542529","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780007542529_p0.jpg?v=1763617148","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780007542529","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}