{"product_id":"there-but-for-the-by-ali-smith-1","title":"There But for the by Ali Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliché and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAli Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67637752266826,"sku":"7056ai","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/7056ai_b521f241-e82b-402d-8409-881e272fd52a.jpg?v=1791432393","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/there-but-for-the-by-ali-smith-1","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}