{"product_id":"shy-max-porter-9781644452899","title":"Shy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone, now adapted for the screen as STEVE, starring Cillian Murphy \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGot your special meds, nutcase? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is escaping Last Chance, a home for \"very disturbed young men,\" and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe night is huge and it hurts. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Shy, Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max Porter","offers":[{"title":"As New (w\/Marks)","offer_id":48427321458931,"sku":"7770002934988","price":12.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/shy-max-porter-9781644452899","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}