{"product_id":"9781773101699","title":"The Running Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction) \u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fervently comic debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Running Trees\u003c\/i\u003e leads readers into a series of conversations — through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation — to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between two siblings disintegrates after one asks the other for \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e pen; a professor and his former student get drinks years after a \"romantic\" encounter; a book club meets only to find that they have wildly different opinions about a new memoir about their town; and a long-haired feline contemplates existence and consciousness while his cohabitant licks his own butthole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, \u003ci\u003eThe Running Trees\u003c\/i\u003e explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65419471749469,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781773101699_FC_5da506d1-b353-4c99-9d5e-45e164c1fe75.jpg?v=1785930020","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781773101699","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}