{"product_id":"9781957363714","title":"In Moonland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 \u003cem\u003eAGE\u003c\/em\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR FICTION\u003cbr\u003eHIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE 2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘A parent’s love for a child, you probably know this yourself, it’s pretty bottomless. It goes down into the guts of the world. But a child’s love for a parent is different. It goes up. It’s more ethereal. It’s not quite present on the earth.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together the mystery of his father’s apparent suicide as his young family slowly implodes. At the ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, in 1976, a man searching for salvation must confront his capacity for violence and darkness. And in a not-too-distant future, a woman with a life-altering decision to make travels through a climate-ravaged landscape to visit her estranged father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Moonland\u003c\/em\u003e is a portrait of three generations, each grappling with their own mortality. Spanning the wild idealism of the 70s through to the fragile hope of the future, it is a novel about the struggle for transcendence and the reverberating effects of family bonds. This long-awaited second outing from Miles Allinson, the multi-award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eFever of Animals\u003c\/em\u003e, will affirm his reputation as one of Australia’s most interesting contemporary fiction writers, and urge us to see our own political and environmental reality in a new light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miles Allinson","offers":[{"title":"Scribe Publications |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-12","offer_id":44414015963391,"sku":"9781957363714","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_636e5f6c-2414-4185-a92b-8d67305bdcc9.jpg?v=1700682762","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781957363714","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}