{"product_id":"audition-7310","title":"Audition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eMillions\u003c\/i\u003e Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunningly inventive. . . Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e meeting a 21st century version of Philip K. Dick. . . Brilliantly weird. Weirdly brilliant.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA genre-defying novel--part science fiction, part social realism--from one of the most powerful voices in New Zealand literature today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA spaceship called \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTalk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley, and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves--experiences of imprisonment, violence, and disempowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePip Adam's transcendent new novel sets its eye firmly on our current justice system and asks what happens when those in power decide someone takes up too much room?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePip Adam\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four novels: \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), \u003ci\u003eNothing to See\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eI'm Working on a Building\u003c\/i\u003e (2013); and the short story collection \u003ci\u003eEverything We Hoped For\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). She makes the \u003ci\u003eBetter off Read\u003c\/i\u003e podcast where she talks with authors about writing and reading and lives in Wellington, Aotearoa (New Zealand).   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pip Adam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67984865526045,"sku":"9781566897310","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781566897310.jpg?v=1793903339","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/audition-7310","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}