{"product_id":"9780993481161","title":"Out Of The City","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe new novel by Birkenhead-born \u003cstrong\u003eNathan O’Hagan\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe World is (Not) a Cold Dead Place\u003c\/em\u003e, turns the temperature down to absolute zero in a thriller that stalks the darkest corners of the male psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the streets of Liverpool, three lives – a young skateboarder, a steroid-crazed bodybuilder and a family man with a dark, troubled profession – are about to overlap in a dance of frustration, humiliation and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis noir journey through bars, gyms, retirement homes, gay clubs and footballers’ mansions leaves a trail of suffocating guilt and psychosexual violence that seems all too real. In exploring ‘crises of masculinity’, O’Hagan trenches psychological depths with a worldly cynicism worthy of Camus, Jim Thompson or Bret Easton Ellis – and transcends the limits of the crime genre as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe World is (Not) a Cold Dead Place\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Nathan O’Hagan is a very talented writer’ Kevin Sampson (author, \u003cem\u003eAwaydays\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Dark, violent, funny, shitty, moving’ James Brown (Journalist, radio presenter and author of \u003cem\u003eAbove Head Height\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A great debut’ Russ Litten (author, \u003cem\u003eKingdom\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Armley Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50086920421616,"sku":"9780993481161","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780993481161","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}