{"product_id":"bang-crunch-stories-vintage-contemporaries-0307386104","title":"Bang Crunch: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0307386104\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smith, Neil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Neil Smiths nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes.Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735499014432,"sku":"NEW0307386104","price":22.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61tXtQMTs5L.jpg?v=1779486366","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/bang-crunch-stories-vintage-contemporaries-0307386104","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}