{"product_id":"9781908670410","title":"The Cut","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Cut is a Brexit novel. The story offers a fictional response to a complex issue. It is also a plot-driven page-turner by one of the most exciting novelists in the country.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCairo Jukes, a boxer from Dudley, supports himself on zero-hour contracts. He has grown up among the canals – or the cuts – that web the Black Country like the open veins of an old industrial order. Then he meets Grace, a successful documentary film maker from London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cut will not put you at ease. It describes a relationship built on misunderstandings, intolerance and guilt – one where each side desires something that the other cannot give.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Writing The Cut made me understand that we live in a country where we see prejudice in others but not in ourselves. This is a lesson that I, and my two characters Cairo and Grace, have tried to learn, with varying levels of success. It is a hard lesson for us all.’ Anthony Cartwright:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy Peirene chose to commission this book:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The result of the EU referendum shocked me. I realized that I had been living in one part of a divided country. What fears – and what hopes – drove my fellow citizens to vote for Brexit? I commissioned Anthony Cartwright to build a fictional bridge between the Britains that opposed each other on referendum day.’ \u003cb\u003eMeike Ziervogel, publisher at Peirene Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Anthony Cartwright:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘A writer with a wonderful ear … and an unblinking sense of Britain as it is today. Anthony Cartwright’s patient, attentive storytelling shines a glowing light on areas of our common experience that the English novel usually consigns to darkness.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Coe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘A compelling protest against simple answers that lingers in the mind long after the final page.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWyl Menmuir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'A bittersweet elegy to Britain's battered working classes.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMetro\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peirene Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137375551728,"sku":"9781908670410","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908670410_p0.jpg?v=1763622689","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908670410","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}