{"product_id":"dayspring","title":"Dayspring","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS - One of Indigo's Top 10 Literary Fiction Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 - One of CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre--at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are few love stories in the holy books. Love is what ruins. Love is what costs. Love is a flaming sword at our backs, a garden left to ruin and to wild. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDayspring\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Oliveira brings to vibrant, glorious life the gospel according to the disciple Christ loved--his companion in the days before the crucifixion, the only instrument that remembers with fidelity his sound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSacred, profane, and rich with explicit desire and a poetic attention to form, \u003ci\u003eDayspring\u003c\/i\u003e weaves electric and heart-wrenching stories of passion, grief, destruction, and survival into a narrative unmoored in space and time, one that re-examines and re-frames great and doomed figures from scripture and history, even as it casts its keen eye on the trials of modern life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeamlessly blending fiction, memoir, and verse in the exhilarating tradition of Anne Carson and Madeline Miller, \u003ci\u003eDayspring\u003c\/i\u003e is an immersive, mesmerizing work, one that wrenches beauty from cataclysm and finds bliss in apocalypse.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 077100382X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780771003820\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Oliveira, Anthony\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Strange Light\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Strange Light","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 2024)","offer_id":46080926875845,"sku":"9780771003820","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780771003820.jpg?v=1776041729","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/dayspring","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}