{"product_id":"cosmo-cosmolino-9781399606882","title":"Cosmo Cosmolino: From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Garner is a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses' \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'A great, strange novel by a very great Australian writer' \u003ci\u003eSYDNEY REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'So exact and vigorous, so full of creative energy' \u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe big, communal households of 1970s Melbourne have long gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, Janet slopes around her run-down house, working hard to forget the noise and happiness it once contained. There are doors she can't bear to open, walls she can't bear to paint - and then there are the lodgers moving into its rooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay, a born-again Christian, hides from his own dark past in the pages of his little black book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Maxine, ecstatic about spells, auras and angels, has been looking for a sign - and reckons Ray must be it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the three settle down together, eating separately and randomly and failing to live as a real household, a strange balance of forces begins to wash over Janet's home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1992, \u003ci\u003eCosmo Cosmolino\u003c\/i\u003e is a carefully structured book about wildly unstructured lives from one of Australia's greatest writers. A rich, radical work of three linked stories, it asks how we find meaning in art, faith, home and each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA W\u0026amp;N Essential\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5 November 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 197 mm; Width 129 mm; Thickness 25 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Orion Publishing Co\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781399606882\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Helen Garner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68064510345466,"sku":"9781399606882","price":12.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9781399606882.jpg?v=1793675471","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/cosmo-cosmolino-9781399606882","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}