{"product_id":"9781906838386","title":"Sandcastle","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this utopia hides a dark secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. Soon everybody is growing older—every half hour—and there doesn’t seem to be any way out of the cove. Levy’s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters’s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSandcastle\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn’t be out of place in a Von Trier film.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSandcastle \u003c\/i\u003eis a fast 112-page read you won't be able to put down.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eCleveland.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Peeters and Lévy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition. Weighty stuff, expertly told.”\u003ci\u003e —The Comics Bulletin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SelfMadeHero","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051439046896,"sku":"9781906838386","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906838386_p0.jpg?v=1763618174","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906838386","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}