{"product_id":"the-edge-of-the-alphabet","title":"The Edge of the Alphabet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Edge of the Alphabet, the third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand’s foremost writers of the twentieth century, is a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, published here on the centenary of her birth with a new foreword by Catherine Lacey.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Janet Frame","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53253029626243,"sku":"9781804271186","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2024-10-06T114844.757.png?v=1728211776","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/the-edge-of-the-alphabet","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}