{"product_id":"9781911381242","title":"Dead Dogs \u0026 Splintered Hearts","description":"\"Brilliant\" - Buzzfeed\u003cbr\u003e\"Enlightening...entertaining...fascinating\" - LitReactor \u003cbr\u003e\"Read everything with his name on\" - Tony Parsons\u003cbr\u003e\"A little bit of Fellini\/Fitzgerald in feeling\" - Oliver Stone\u003cp\u003eIn these 24 short stories, author Tom Ward invites you inside a world at times heartbreaking, occasionally violent, and often perverse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing: a sophisticated assassin, celebratory Parisian cabaret dancers and a magazine cool enough to literally explode minds, and diving into: love and shattered hopes in the South of France, the ghost of Norman Mailer, a disgraced Father Christmas, and cannibalistic school teachers, there's something here for everyone to enjoy, or at least be offended by. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that's before we've even touched on: Lithuanian beauties, fingers cut to the bone, a bag of eyeballs, Mexican evenings with dishonoured famous cyclists, Charles Bukowksi's pub, and the latest in scientific seduction techniques. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, and there's the occasional dog, as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes the GQ Norman Mailer Award-winning 'Four Night Stand'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crooked Cat Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047890272496,"sku":"9781911381242","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911381242_p0.jpg?v=1763630384","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911381242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}