{"product_id":"9780007372775_clear-a-transparent-novel","title":"Clear: A Transparent Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. A raucous, novel about the circus surrounding David Blaine’s starvation stunt at Tower Bridge, from a Granta Best of British Novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 5th September 2003, New York Illusionist David Blaine entered a small perspex box adjacent to the River Thames and commenced starving himself. Forty-four days later – on 19th October – he left the box, four stone lighter. That much, at least, is clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the rest? The crowds? The chaos? The hype? The rage? The rows? The lust? The filth? The bullshit? The hypocrisy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicola Barker fearlessly crams all that and more into this ribald and outrageous peep show of a novel, her most irreverent, caustic, up-to-the-minute work yet, laying bare the heart of our contemporary world, a world of illusion, delusion, celebrity and hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicola Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47275076944021,"sku":"9780007372775","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007372775.jpg?v=1776889773","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007372775_clear-a-transparent-novel","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}