{"product_id":"the-fifth-season-philip-salom-9781925760644","title":"The Fifth Season","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Longlisted for theMiles Franklin Literary Award 2021*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJack retreats to an Airbnb cottage in a small coastal town. As a\n\u003cbr\u003ewriter he is pre-occupied with the phenomenon of found people: the Somerton\n\u003cbr\u003eMan, the Gippsland Man, the Isdal Woman, people who are found dead - their\n\u003cbr\u003eidentities unknown or erased - and the\n\u003cbr\u003emysterious pull this has on the public mind.\n\u003cbr\u003eIn Blue Bay, as well as encountering the town's colourful inhabitants,\n\u003cbr\u003eJack befriends Sarah, whose sister Alice is one of the many thousands of people\n\u003cbr\u003ewho go missing every year. Sarah has been painting her sister's likeness in\n\u003cbr\u003emurals throughout the country, hoping that Alice will be found. Then Jack discovers\n\u003cbr\u003ea book about the people of the town, and about Sarah, which was written by a\n\u003cbr\u003eman who called himself Simon. Who once lived in the same cottage and created a backyard\n\u003cbr\u003egarden comprised of crazy mosaics. Until he too disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Sarah's life seems beholden to an ambiguous grief, Jack's own\n\u003cbr\u003econdition is unclear. Is he writing or dying? In The Fifth Season Philip\n\u003cbr\u003eSalom brings his virtuoso gifts for storytelling, humour and character to a\n\u003cbr\u003ehaunting and unforgettable novel about the tenuousness of life and what it\n\u003cbr\u003emeans to be both lost and found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An immensely wise, witty, recognisable and haunting story.' - Robert Drewe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip Salom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43176022081779,"sku":"9781925760644","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781925760644.jpg?v=1662080892","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-fifth-season-philip-salom-9781925760644","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}