{"product_id":"9781922148117","title":"Wish","description":"\u003cp\u003eJ.J. is back living at home in Adelaide, unemployed and drifting after a messy divorce. Then he is offered a job teaching Sign to Eliza. His new pupil is smart, sensitive, attractive - and a gorilla recently liberated from a medical research laboratory by animal rights activists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1995, the third novel by the acclaimed writer Peter Goldsworthy is unique in Australian literature: a dazzling, moving story about scientific experimentation and ethics, language and love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis edition comes with a new introduction by James Bradley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Goldsworthy\u003c\/b\u003e has won the FAW Christina Stead Prize for fiction, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and a Helpmann Award, shared with the composer Richard Mills, for the opera \u003ci\u003eBatavia\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry and novels have been widely translated; four of his novels and the short story 'The Kiss' have been adapted for the stage. His most recent book is the short-story collection \u003ci\u003eGravel\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal for Literature. This year Penguin is publishing \u003ci\u003eHis Stupid Boyhood\u003c\/i\u003e, a comic memoir, and \u003ci\u003eMaestro\u003c\/i\u003e, his debut novel, is being reissued as an Angus \u0026amp; Robertson Australian Classic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'[Goldsworthy's] greatest achievement...Brave, brilliant, as intellectually challenging as it is playful, it is testament to a restless and unpredictable imagination.' James Bradley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Stylish, imaginative, poignant, and hugely unsettling.' \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A deeply satisfying book...represents a new achievement in his fiction...Read it. You won't find another novel like it.' \u003ci\u003eAdelaide Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154221973744,"sku":"9781922148117","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922148117_p0.jpg?v=1763635393","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922148117","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}