{"product_id":"live-show-drink-included-book-vicky-grut-9781907320798","title":"Live Show, Drink Included","description":"Fiction. Short Stories. For the stories in this collection Vicky Grut takes inspiration from a range of often ordinary situations and explores how easily things can go awry or take an unexpected turn. The stories veer from the realistic to the surreal, and nothing is quite what it seems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo give you a flavour of what they are like here are a few snippets: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Rich, two young people travelling towards Florence just after the Bologna bombing of 1980, decide to cadge a meal and a bed for the night from a girl they barely know. In the early hours of the morning, the atmosphere suddenly changes. They are in over their heads. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Mistaken, an academic is mistaken for a shop assistant in a big London department store. When she reacts impulsively she finds herself in trouble. Help comes from an unlikely quarter--and for all the wrong reasons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Into the Valley, a woman tries to comfort her suffering mother-in-law on ward 19 in a small hospital in Wales. Underneath the ward sign it says, in English and in Welsh, Bereavement Office \/ Swyddfa Profedigaeth. There probably isn't a ward 20. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany of the stories have been shortlisted for awards and prizes over the years, including the Asham Award (twice) and the Narrative Magazine Contest in the US. Six of the stories were included in new writing collections from Serpents' Tail, Pulp Editions, Duckworths, Granta, Picador and Bloomsbury, and two were published in the States by \u003cem\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/em\u003e. The final story Into the Valley was included in the list of Essays of Note in 2012 at the end of Cheryl Strayed's edition of \u003cem\u003eBest American Essays, 2013\u003c\/em\u003e. Be prepared to not only be entertained but also taken by surprise when reading the fourteen mini-novels in this collection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533507109137,"sku":"GOR009799764","price":16.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50717516923153,"sku":"GOR011146314","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53474390704401,"sku":"NGR9781907320798","price":16.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1907320792.jpg?v=1751186956","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/live-show-drink-included-book-vicky-grut-9781907320798","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}