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Daringly experimental, Machine is a kaleidoscopic interrogation of gender, class and privilege, an unforgettable rendering of youth spinning out of control.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49576587002129,"sku":"GOR011838856","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49630200430865,"sku":"GOR013297301","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51603923992849,"sku":"NGR9781911590293","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1911590294.jpg?v=1777629439"},{"product_id":"machine-book-susan-steinberg-9781555978471","title":"Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectacle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Susan Steinberg's first novel,\u003ci\u003eMachine\u003c\/i\u003e, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book,\u003ci\u003eSpectacle\u003c\/i\u003e, gained her a rapturous following.\u003ci\u003eMachine\u003c\/i\u003e revolves around a group of teenagers--both locals and wealthy out-of-towners--during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, she pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family, and learns that no one, not even she, is blameless.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A daring stylist, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. 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A thrilling first novel from a unique talent, this is suspenseful, audacious, riveting literary fiction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738202186001,"sku":"NGR9781911590279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50162196611345,"sku":"GOR010966179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1911590278.jpg?v=1759232182"},{"product_id":"hydroplane-book-susan-steinberg-9781573661294","title":"Hydroplane","description":"Propelled by monomania, these are stories that glide from the preoccupations of one speaker to those of another. The weight of these obsessions, driven by the kinetic and emotive force of Susan Steinberg's capable hand, is what fuels her fiction. \"\"Hydroplane\"\" reads like a nocturnal drive along a beclouded and vapory highway, working in a similar direction as the novels of Samuel Beckett, most notably \"\"Watt\"\" and \"\"Molloy\"\". Much like those title characters, the speakers populating this collection are crippled by their loss, able only to rummage through recollections of the past as protection against an indistinct future. One story, \"\"Static,\"\" follows a few steps behind a teenage girl as she spends the summer at the home of her divorcee father. Squandering evenings behind the House of Mirrors, she conceives of herself as a sexual entity, and an object of male desire. Each of Steinberg's stories builds upon itself as if telegraphed, relaying mere slivers of the past. One sentence glissades into the next as though in perpetual motion: \"\"And I thought of trees. 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As well as the dramatic climbing shots, there are more gentle scenes of Grasmere and Derwentwater, sheep and shepherds, tarns, fells and launches...all seemingly unchanged in a century. Every exile from the Lake District will be transported back in time.Reproduced with fresh clarity thanks to digital technology, the photographs have been painstakingly gathered from all quarters; from art galleries, private collections and libraries, as well as from hotels and even pubs. 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