{"product_id":"ness-9780241396568","title":"Ness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNess\u003c\/strong\u003e by Macfarlane, Robert. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780241396568.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNESS by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Stanley Donwood\nEerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway\n\nNess goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song. It is dark, ever so dark, nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age. Ness is something else, and feels like it always has been Max Porter, author of Lanny\nSomewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass with terrible intent.\nBut something is coming to stop him.\nFive more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving towards the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.\nWhat happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect.\nRobert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words, The Old Ways and Underland, among other books.\n\nStanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly Downward and Household Worms. His next books are There Will Be No Quiet and Bad Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hamish Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254293422133,"sku":"ByrdShop_0241396565","price":85.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780241396568_02975845-6719-4bd4-828b-9f27e4e1d860.jpg?v=1779956804","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ness-9780241396568","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}