{"product_id":"the-edge-of-the-alphabet","title":"The Edge of the Alphabet","description":"\u003cp\u003eToby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Edge of the Alphabet,\u003c\/em\u003e the third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand’s foremost writers of the twentieth century, is a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, published here on the centenary of her birth with a new foreword by Catherine Lacey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions\u003cbr\u003ePages: 296\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781804271186\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1804271187\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Janet Frame","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50143006163210,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781804271186.jpg?v=1729250408","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-edge-of-the-alphabet","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}