{"product_id":"the-liars-dictionary-9780593311868","title":"The Liar's Dictionary","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\"You wouldn't expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eaward-winning\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003enovel that chronicles the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003echarming\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003emisadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMountweazel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby's multivolume \u003ci\u003eEncyclopaedic Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher's young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator's motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she's also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby's staff to \"burn in hell.\" As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life's often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Liar's Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one's place in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELEY WILLIAMS is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAttrib. and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiberating the Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ethe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561644593426,"sku":"9780593311868","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bad2d96f-7213-4838-809f-65f4c8549ee7.jpg?v=1731849737","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-liars-dictionary-9780593311868","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}