{"product_id":"9780802199683","title":"The Quarry","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e: “[A]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e spare, intense story of rural South Africa . . . His clear, elemental prose is never generic” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Damon Galgut established himself as a writer of international caliber with the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e, which was sold in sixteen countries and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the African region. \u003ci\u003eThe Quarry\u003c\/i\u003e is another stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature betrays itself against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new rural congregation; the passenger is a fugitive. When the minister realizes this, the fugitive kills him. He assumes his vestments and identity, only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to preside over his victim’s funeral. As the fugitive and the local police chief play a tense game of cat and mouse, culminating in a pursuit across the desolate veldt, Damon Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man’s most prized attribute: freedom.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Quarry\u003c\/i\u003e has the same dry, feral quality as Damon Galgut’s best-known novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . The issues of guilt, injustice and redemption give the novel a biblical feel. The writing shines in its peripheral vision, in the backdrops and corners of its scenes.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107158180080,"sku":"9780802199683","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802199683_p0.jpg?v=1763665754","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802199683","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}