{"product_id":"dogs-of-summer-9781474624084","title":"Dogs of Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eA ten-year-old girl in a working-class neighborhood dreams of hitching a ride to the beach, but instead hangs out with her best friend, Isora. As the summer goes on, friendship simmers into obsession, desire into intimate violence. The book is hilarious, devastating, and brilliantly attuned to the erotics of friendship. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 08 June 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Orion Publishing Co\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShows girlhood as it really was:\u003cbr\u003ebrutal and tender, intimate and lonely, magical and utterly gross.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Beecher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSensual and dirty, absurdist and tragic. Abreu's talent is thrilling to witness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrish Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStuck in a working-class neighbourhood, high up among Tenerife's volcanoes, a ten-year-old girl dreams of hitching a ride to the faraway beach. Instead, she hangs out with her best friend, Isora. She likes everything about Isora. From the colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes to the way she writes the letter g with a huge tail. But she envies her too. Envies her grits and gut; her periods and her pubes; the way she is growing up at full tilt without her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the summer goes on and the heat becomes ever more oppressive, friendship simmers into obsession, desire into intimate violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sentences blast off the pages. Hilarious, devastating and brilliantly attuned to the erotics of friendship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJamel Brinkley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs sultry as the summer weather. Abreu beautifully evokes an era, in which Pokémon and Bratz dolls give way to sexual discovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Julia Sanches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 164g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 196 x 130 x 14 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781474624084\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrea Abreu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44276633567482,"sku":"9781474624084","price":7.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1686321455629_book.jpg?v=1686565414","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/dogs-of-summer-9781474624084","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}