{"product_id":"9780007594337_green-glowing-skull","title":"Green Glowing Skull","description":"\u003cp\u003eA breathtakingly original, darkly comic, surprisingly contemporary and deeply surreal tale from the author of THIS IS THE WAY, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter fleeing his dying parents and the drudgery of work in Dublin for the Manhattan of his imagination – a place of romance and opulence, dark old concert halls and mellow front parlours quieted by the hiss of the phonograph cylinder – Rickard Velily hopes to be reborn as an Irish tenor, and to one day be reunited with the love of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the very peculiar Cha Bum Kun Club, a masonic-style refuge for immigrants who can’t quite cut it in New York City, he meets Denny Kennedy-Logan and Clive Sullis, and a plan is enacted: to revive the art songs and ballads of another time for a hip young city in thrall to technology and money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that is without reckoning on meddlesome sprites, the phantoms of the past – and more malign forces who plot to subjugate the human race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreen Glowing Skull is a half-crazed brain-shunt of a trip around the spirit world, the cyber world and a woozily recognisable real world – a darkly comic tale of mythologies, machines and the metaphysical swirl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gavin Corbett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284751302805,"sku":"9780007594337","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007594337.jpg?v=1776992310","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007594337_green-glowing-skull","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}