{ "item_title" : "Ruin", "item_author" : [" Emma Hislop "], "item_description" : "Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-- with varying degrees of success-- to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-- and sometimes the violence they exact in revenge. While doubts about a romantic partner, an abandonment by a sister, the fallout of a parent's pornography addiction, the betrayal of a friend, even the desire to touch a stranger's fur-like body are subtler aggressions that pack their own kinds of punches. Moving between contemporary New Zealand and London, and a dreamlike landscape that isn't quite real, this debut collection shimmers with a brutal kind of hope, exploring power and its contortions, powerlessness and its depravities, and the ends to which we will go to claim back agency.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/77/692/066/177692066X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.95", "online_price" : "19.95", "our_price" : "19.95", "club_price" : "19.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

Overview

Customers Also Bought

Details