{"product_id":"9781408809266","title":"This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel at the age of twenty-six, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean poetic language, a keen sense of detail, and insightful characterization. Now, after publishing three novels, he's turning his considerable talent toward short fiction. The stories in this beautifully wrought collection explore a specific physical world and the people who inhabit it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet among the lowlands and levees, the fens and ditches that mark the spare landscape of eastern England, the stories expose lives where much is buried, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won. The narrators of these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell us what they believe to be important-in language inflected with the landscape's own understatement-while the real stories lie in what they unwittingly let slip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man builds a tree house by a river in preparation for a coming flood. A boy sets fire to a barn. A pair of itinerant laborers sit by a lake and talk,while fighter-planes fly low overhead and prepare for war. \u003ci\u003eThis Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You\u003c\/i\u003e is an intricate exploration of isolation, self-discovery, and the impact of place on the human psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eEven the Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A rare combination of profound empathy and wonderful writing.\" -\u003cb\u003eMark Haddon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028170850544,"sku":"9781408809266","price":32.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408809266_p0.jpg?v=1763720434","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408809266","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}