{"product_id":"9780857304063_blackwood","title":"Blackwood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe small town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, but now seems stuck in a black-and-white photograph from days gone by. Unknowing, the town and its people are about to come alive again, awakening to nightmares, as ghostly whispers have begun to fill the night from the kudzu-covered valley that sits on the edge of town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Times\/Sunday Times Book of the Year (www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/best-fiction-books-of-the-year-2020-3xv7xjz20)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFirst edition of Blackwood (Demy PB w flaps) was published just before lockdown in the UK, received outstanding critical acclaim and sold out\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMichael Farris Smith has been compared to William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMajor new novel, NICK, by Michael Farris Smith to be published 25\/02\/2021 - a prequel to The Great Gatsby, NICK imagines the life of narrator Nick Carraway. Widespread press coverage expected\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDesperation Road was longlisted for the Gold Dagger Award and Michael Farris Smith has been awarded the Mississippi Author Award for Fiction, Transatlantic Review Award, and Brick Streets Press Story Award\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSmith's novels Desperation Road and The Fighter have been optioned for film, with Smith serving as screenwriter for both projects. The Fighter, going by the screen name Rumble Through The Dark, is being produced by Cassian Elwes and directed by Parker and Graham Phillips, whose debut film The Bygone releases in autumn 2019\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHis novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists in Esquire, Southern Living and Book Riot\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuthor visited the UK in 2018 for Festival America and has been a guest at the Adelaide Writers Festival\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898426609813,"sku":"9780857304063","price":23.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780857304063_b131d83e-b977-4d1a-93f2-cbd2ace57b0f.jpg?v=1776888139","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780857304063_blackwood","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}