{"product_id":"boxer-beetle-by-ned-bauman","title":"'Boxer Beetle' by Ned Beauman","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"246\"\u003eA beetle shows up in a motel room in New York, and then we are led through 1930s London and a present-day thread, stitching together bodybuilding, fascism, eugenics, and a kind of obsessive, slightly deranged idea of the “perfect body.”\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"246\"\u003eThere’s a Nazi sympathiser obsessed with physical culture, a Jewish boxer caught in the machinery of it, and then—cut sideways—a contemporary narrative involving experimental drugs and a man whose body is no longer entirely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"674\" data-end=\"998\"\u003eBeauman writes like he doesn’t trust the ground he’s on. It’s fast, funny in a very dry, off-angle way, and constantly shifting tone—historical novel one minute, body-horror-adjacent satire the next. We have ideology, flesh, and performance all blurring together. It shouldn't work, but it most certainly does. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1121\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSceptre paperback, 2010 (first trade edition). Very good condition. Clean pages, light general wear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44507149303891,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-04-19T133033.660.png?v=1776569534","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/boxer-beetle-by-ned-bauman","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}