{"product_id":"signals-of-distress-9780312424428","title":"Signals of Distress","description":"\u003cp\u003eNovember, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, uncannily familiar to our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Crace\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven other novels, including \u003ci\u003eBeing Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Birmingham, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844302410002,"sku":"9780312424428","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dbbf4730-be3c-4310-ae30-8bb706bda950.jpg?v=1737316727","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/signals-of-distress-9780312424428","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}