{"product_id":"9781487013561","title":"Planet Earth: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eInternational award–winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePlanet Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicholas Ruddock moves nimbly through a range of styles—from conventional to flash-fiction to his unique mastery of the long sentence—in stories exploring themes of love and passion, all with an awareness of our species-specific carelessness burning up the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection showcases a gifted writer at the top of his game, each story fresh and unexpected: the time Mario Vargas Llosa sucker-punched Gabriel García Márquez at a theatre in Mexico City inspires a young Marxist couple’s violent act of revenge in Toronto years later; an anxious young man finds solace in the employ of Prince, the musician; we get a haunting glimpse of Toronto’s polio epidemic at its peak in 1953; a young Canadian student bears witness to the Algerian protests and police violence in 1961 Paris; a pair of naive young women find themselves involved with a mysterious circus troupe in Nice. These provocative but contemplative stories are paradoxically positive and quick-witted, with a humorous fondness for humans and all our failings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46414568685809,"sku":"9781487013561","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781487013561_p0.jpg?v=1765002257","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487013561","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}