{"product_id":"9780008647506-quint","title":"Quint","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Robert Lautner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 288\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN, THE TIMES  'Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER  'Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century's first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG  Before there was Jaws, there was... QUINT  You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began.  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.  In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character.  'Excellent... a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence' THE TIMES, Best Summer Reads  '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","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47978129162394,"sku":"9780008647506","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/1625\/7690\/files\/9780008647506-us-300.jpg?v=1778038911","url":"https:\/\/castlebooks.com.au\/products\/9780008647506-quint","provider":"Castlebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}