{"product_id":"9780995622418","title":"The Crying Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hilarious and poignant novel about the end of the world, before and after, as experienced by apparently its lone survivor, who hadn't been paying attention.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFollowing an unforeseen apocalyptic event, Clifford, an in-no-way-dedicated student, still sleeping on his best friend's sofa after the break-up of his relationship, begins to write impulsively in an effort to keep his sanity. His diary of a macabre present is flooded with often comic memories of the semi-dystopian world he has lost, which coalesce into an elegy for the people that mattered to him most.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNights out and six-a-side with Lucas, whose mother just died of cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy, whisky and Jammy Dodgers with Dr Jacobson, his office-bound tutor.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDaytime TV and cups of tea with Elsie, his exquisitely breasted housemate.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHis liaison with Josephine, their African maid.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHis dysfunctional, violent romance with Charlotte, his ex-girlfriend in perpetuity.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAnd the crying girl, whom Clifford met on a mission to retrieve his football, and with whom – just because she was crying – he immediately fell in love.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, in the background, civilization was in retreat. Half the city was underwater, terrorism was mundane, paramedics behaved like rogue police, and the lods, a criminal underclass, made other parts of town off-limits. But all of this was secondary to the vital concerns of Clifford's life – and seems even less important in the aftermath of apocalypse. Now \"life\" consists only in writing, insomnia, the unsettling survival of a late-night channel showing Spanish porn, and Clifford's obsessional search for Elsie, who went on a date with \"someone else\" the night before it happened.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNone of which prepares him for a fateful trip to the supermarket, and his shocking encounter with another survivor – and fellow student – Murdoch, who is not his friend…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlie Weaver Rolfe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118967996656,"sku":"9780995622418","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780995622418_p0.jpg?v=1763940604","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780995622418","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}