{"product_id":"audition-paperback-by-pip-adam","title":"Audition Paperback by Pip Adam","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eStrange Light\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2025-06-10)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e240\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780771019029\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e221.13\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.23 x 5.47 x 0.62\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Profoundly anti-carceral, abundantly queer, and weird as f*ck, \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e will lead you to spine-tingling places if you are willing to navigate its corridors.” —Casey Lucas, \u003ci\u003ebad apple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe spaceship \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e is hurtling through the cosmos towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    So they talk, and as they do, Alba, Stanley, and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves—experiences of imprisonment, violence, and misrecognition, of disempowerment and underprivilege.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Part science fiction, part social realism, \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room, and about how we live with each other’s cruelties, imagine new forms of justice, and transcend the bodies and selves we are given.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003ePIP ADAM is the author of four novels—\u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNothing to See; The New Animals,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction; and \u003ci\u003eI’m Working on a Building\u003c\/i\u003e—and the short story collection \u003ci\u003eEverything We Hoped For\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011. Pip makes the “Better off Read” podcast and lives in Wellington, New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45450600054945,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780771019029","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780771019029.jpg?v=1764242096","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/audition-paperback-by-pip-adam","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}