{"product_id":"the-body-builders-trade-paperback","title":"The Body Builders (Trade Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'I was enraptured by this book.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Body Builders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexhibits Albertine Clarke's remarkable gifts - the boldness and precision of her imagination, the breadth of her ethical and intellectual concerns. She is a fearless writer, and I felt a shiver of admiration as I read every page'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKATIE KITAMURA\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'If Philip K. Dick had written\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, it may have resembled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Body Builders\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- at once smooth as android skin and sharp as shards of broken mirror. A stunning and haunting debut'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCAMILLE BORDAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'By turns tender and unsettling,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Body Builders\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a spare yet profound enquiry into the bonds of family and the limits of the self, and what it means to be connected to other people. Full of stylish and unexpected touches - a debut that marks an important new talent'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTASH AW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'An exciting and remarkably controlled debut using a brilliant sci-fi conceit to tell a story about estrangement, selfhood, and love'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCATHERINE LACEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAda lives a solitary life in London. A young adult haunted by her lonely childhood, she spends her days swimming, occasionally visiting her cousin, meeting people for drinks, ignoring invitations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen she meets a man named Atticus by the pool, Ada immediately senses an intimate connection between them, as if they share a life in a way she can't explain. Little by little, Ada's estrangement from all that is familiar to her widens, as though she is seeing her reflection through a mirror, pieces of it falling away. She worries she may be losing her mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEventually, Ada's attachment to the world and her body itself fails completely. She is jolted into a new, artificial environment - The Facility - apparently created and designed just for her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a person's life is inherently one of isolation, are our connections with those around us merely projections of ourselves? And if not, where do they come from?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith precision, subtlety, and confidence Albertine Clarke transforms the speculative into an entirely singular experience of deep interiority. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Body Builders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lands like a blow, widening a crack that allows us to perceive the world differently than we ever imagined.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Albertine Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063292608690,"sku":"9781472160720","price":395.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781472160720.jpg?v=1774345029","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-body-builders-trade-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}