{"product_id":"9780007592906_the-loss-of-leon-meed","title":"The Loss of Leon Meed","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Josh Emmons is the real deal: a major league prose writer who has fun in every sentence; you want to keep reading him for the pure pleasure of his company’ Jonathan Franzen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of one December, ten residents of Eureka, California, are brought together by a mysterious man, Leon Meed, who repeatedly and inexplicably appears – in the ocean, at a local music club, clinging to the roof of a barrelling truck, standing in the middle of Main Street’s oncoming traffic – and then, as if by magic, disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach witness to these bewildering events – young and old, married and single, punk and evangelical, black, white and Korean – interprets them differently, yet all of their lives are irrevocably changed. Over time, these ten characters, previously only tenuously connected, form a strange community of shared experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly original and brilliantly written, Josh Emmons’s award-winning debut is a mystery, a love story and something else entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Josh Emmons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895330492565,"sku":"9780007592906","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007592906.jpg?v=1776888371","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007592906_the-loss-of-leon-meed","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}