{"product_id":"toad-by-katherine-dunn-9781250872296","title":"Toad","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of \u003cem\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her wayward early twenties, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college. There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people's stories; Carlotta, a troubled free spirit; and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student. Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eColourful, crass, and profound, \u003cem\u003eToad\u003c\/em\u003e is Katherine Dunn's ode to her time as a student at Reed College in the late 1960s. It is filled with the same mordant observations about the darkest aspects of human nature that made \u003cem\u003eGeek Love\u003c\/em\u003e a cult classic and Dunn a misfit hero. Daring and bizarre, \u003cem\u003eToad\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates her genius for black humour and her ecstatic celebration of the grotesque. Fifty-some years after it was written, \u003cem\u003eToad\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely story about the ravages of womanhood and a powerful addition to the canon of feminist fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244789575916,"sku":"9781250872296","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250872296-toad-1.jpg?v=1788014249","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/toad-by-katherine-dunn-9781250872296","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}