{"product_id":"shy-porter","title":"Shy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone, now adapted for the screen as STEVE, starring Cillian Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGot your special meds, nutcase?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is escaping Last Chance, a home for \"very disturbed young men,\" and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe night is huge and it hurts.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn  \u003ci\u003eShy\u003c\/i\u003e, Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with \u003ci\u003eGrief\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIs the Thing with Feathers \u003c\/i\u003eand continued with \u003ci\u003eLanny\u003c\/i\u003e. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? \u003ci\u003eShy\u003c\/i\u003e is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52629867692400,"sku":"9781644452899","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_4f1a6508-5427-4dcf-af7a-1006aea60b03.jpg?v=1761542622","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/shy-porter","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}