{"product_id":"9781897231944","title":"Light Lifting","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF 2012\u003cbr\u003eIRISH TIMES BOOK-TO-READ FOR 2012\u003cbr\u003eATLANTIC BOOK AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE AND THE FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003e GLOBE \u0026amp; MAIL, QUILL \u0026amp; QUIRE,\u003c\/i\u003e AND AMAZON.CA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Engrossing, thrilling and ultimately satisfying: each story has the weight of a novel.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis was the day after Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfield’s ear. You remember that. It was a moment in history – not like Kennedy or the planes flying into the World Trade Center – not up at that level. This was something much lower, more like Ben Johnson, back when his eyes were that thick, yellow color and he tested positive in Seoul after breaking the world-record in the hundred. You might not know exactly where you were standing or exactly what you were doing when you first heard about Tyson or about Ben, but when the news came down, I bet it stuck with you. When Tyson bit off Holyfield’s ear, that cut right through the everyday clutter.\u003c\/i\u003e —from \"Miracle Mile\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo runners race a cargo train through the darkness of a rat-infested tunnel beneath the Detroit River. A drugstore bicycle courier crosses a forbidden threshold in an attempt to save a life and a young swimmer conquers her fear of water only to discover she's caught in far more dangerous currents. An auto-worker who loses his family in a car accident is forced to reconsider his relationship with the internal combustion engine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander MacLeod is a writer of \"ferocious intelligence\" and \"ferocious physicality\" (CTV). \u003ci\u003eLight Lifting\u003c\/i\u003e, his celebrated first collection, offers us a suite of darkly urban and unflinching elegies that explore the depths of the psyche and channel the subconscious hopes and terrors that motivate us all. These are elemental stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely averted, but also of beauty, love and fragile understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050264051952,"sku":"9781897231944","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781897231944_p0.jpg?v=1763610866","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781897231944","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}