{"product_id":"clear-a-transparent-novel-9780060797577","title":"Clear: A Transparent Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London's Thames River and began starving himself. Forty-four days later, on October 19, he left the box, fifty pounds lighter. That much, at least, is clear. And the rest? The crowds? The chaos? The hype? The rage? The fights? The lust? The filth? The bullshit? The hypocrisy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicola Barker\u003c\/strong\u003e fearlessly crams all that and more into this ribald and outrageous peep show of a novel, her most irreverent, caustic, up-to-the-minute work yet, laying bare the heart of our contemporary world, a world of illusion, delusion, celebrity, and hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarker, Nicola:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eNicola Barker is one of Britain's most original and exciting literary talents. She is the author of two short-story collections: \u003cem\u003eLove Your Enemies\u003c\/em\u003e [winner of the David Higham Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award] and \u003cem\u003eHeading Inland\u003c\/em\u003e [winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]. Her previous novels are \u003cem\u003eReversed Forecast, Small Holdings, Wide Open Behindlings \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eClear, \u003c\/em\u003e the last of which was long-listed for the 2005 Booker Prize. Her work is translated into twenty languages, and in 2000, she won the IMPAC Award for \u003cem\u003eWide Open\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2003, Nicola Barker was named a Granta Best of British Novelist. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317831602450,"sku":"9780060797577","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dfa9216f-5f47-4381-ba70-b4ad0b926ed9.jpg?v=1727540991","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/clear-a-transparent-novel-9780060797577","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}