{"product_id":"9780992939434","title":"The House They Couldn't Build","description":"Strange fiction, altered realities. Six short stories inspired by notions of 'home' - disorienting, comic and uniquely memorable.\u003cp\u003ePork Chop:a claustrophobic and tightly woven tale of 'tag' that sees a masked gang terrorise a small family, playing out the fears and fantasies of personal resentment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Gunnard Ultimatum: a writer travels into the hills in search of a man he's never met. But what he finds is far beyond anything he could ever have imagined, as magic realism and fantasy come together in sumptuous detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mirror Trick : The Petersens live in faded grandeur, on the periphery and disengaged from their own lives - until the reflection of young Anna takes on a life of its own and tries to infiltrate their humdrum existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Smoke: dirty, gritty and desperate, like its protagonist and the 'lizard man' he meets, a man looking for an escape and in need of an accomplice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymbiosis: A unlikely work of fiction laced with the sadness of isolation as a man comes to terms with the creature that has taken residence in his home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Game of Invention: A loner in a post-apocalyptic world lives in a fantasy world of memory and delusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBleakly comic and uniquely memorable, The House They Couldn't Build presents beautifully crafted and seemingly recognisable worlds in which the unlikely meets the impossible head-on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Goldman Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49796048421104,"sku":"9780992939434","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780992939434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}