{"product_id":"9780008647506","title":"Quint by Robert Lautner","description":"`Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN, THE TIMES                                `Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER                                `Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century's first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG                                Before there was Jaws, there was. QUINT                    You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began.             Quint: the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis, only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS. So much more than a fisherman - a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake.             In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character.                         `Excellent. a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence' THE TIMES, Best Summer Reads                                `If Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar. one of this year's literary miracles' IRISH INDEPENDENT\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54911793332597,"sku":"9780008647506","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008647506.jpg?v=1736347717","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780008647506","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}