{"product_id":"9781846974229","title":"The Sound of My Voice : Winner of Prix Millepages and Prix Lucioles, both for Best Foreign Novel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Butlin, Ron \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 March 2018 by Birlinn General (Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 160 pages\u003cbr\u003e200 x 130 | 156g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Genuinely subversive, Butlin's book is a stylistic triumph. A major novel' - Irvine WelshMorris Magellan is thirty-four years old and already two-thirds destroyed. By day he is an executive, after six and at weekends the husband of an understanding wife and the father of two. At all times he is a music lover and a drunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf the past he remembers only fear, and of the future he senses even greater terror to come; he is a man struggling from moment to moment to salvage something of himself before that too slips from his grasp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn one level The Sound of My Voice tells the story of an alcoholic: a frantic attempt by some inner voice to halt an apparent need for self-destruction. More generally it presents the conflict between modern man's cowardice and cruelty, and a desperate attempt to recover humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925417689347,"sku":"9781846974229","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781846974229_d5270c87-59d4-4785-87d6-bcbcd49e6b77.jpg?v=1731421454","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781846974229","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}