{"product_id":"in-the-garden-of-the-fugitives-9781250214911","title":"In the Garden of the Fugitives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfoundly addictive and unsettling, Ceridwen Dovey's \u003ci\u003eIn the Garden of the Fugitives \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterful novel of duplicity and counterplay, as brilliantly illuminating as it is surprising--about the obscure workings of guilt in the human psyche, the compulsion to create and control, and the dangerous morphing of desire into obsession. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlmost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protégées. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for wanting to settle accounts. They enter into an intimate game of words, played according to shifting rules of engagement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeyond their murky shared history, they are both aware they can use each other to free themselves from deeper pasts. Vita is processing the shameful inheritance of her birthplace, and making sense of the disappearance of her beloved. Royce is haunted by memories of the untimely death of his first love, an archaeologist who worked in the Garden of the Fugitives in Pompeii. Between what's been repressed and what has been disguised are disturbances that reach back through decades, even centuries. But not everything from the past is precious: each gorgeous age is built around a core of rottenness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ceridwen Dovey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250214911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCeridwen Dovey\u003c\/b\u003e's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eBlood Kin\u003c\/i\u003e, was published around the world and selected for the National Book Foundation's prestigious 5 Under 35 honors list. The \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003enamed her one of their \"artists to watch.\" Her short story collection, \u003ci\u003eOnly the Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by FSG in 2015 and described by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003eas a \"dazzling, imagined history of humans' relationship with animals.\" She lives in Sydney, Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45111038345331,"sku":"9781250214911","price":27.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_4d7f73a4-0d02-4c40-9fd0-ee9bd7c6db57.jpg?v=1781701077","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/in-the-garden-of-the-fugitives-9781250214911","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}