{"product_id":"9781487013561","title":"Planet Earth : Stories by Nicholas Ruddock","description":"International-award-winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline.   In Planet Earth, 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.   This collection showcases a gifted writer at the top of his game, each story fresh and unexpected: the time Mario Vargas Llosa sucker-punched Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez 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 na?ve 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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368911712629,"sku":"9781487013561","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781487013561.jpg?v=1763551343","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781487013561","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}