{"product_id":"9780008647506","title":"Quint by Robert Lautner","description":"‘Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction’ GILES COREN, THE TIMES\u003cp\u003e  ‘Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century’s first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Before there was Jaws, there was… QUINT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Quint: the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis, only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS. So much more than a fisherman – a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Excellent… a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence’ THE TIMES, Best Summer Reads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘If Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar… one of this year’s literary miracles' IRISH INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback,\u003cbr\u003ePagination: 288 pages","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47750404866275,"sku":"9780008647506","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9780008647506.jpg?v=1766224623","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780008647506","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}