{"product_id":"feral-palit-by-robin-wallace-crabbe","title":"'Feral Palit' by Robin Wallace-Crabbe","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"892\"\u003eA strange, inward Australian novel about Alan Palit, a man who is mad, incarcerated, and trying to reconstruct the events that pushed him toward hermitage and exclusion.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"892\"\u003eThe setup is already doing something more warped than a conventional realist novel, built around a consciousness trying to make sense of its own derailment. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eWallace-Crabbe is better known in some circles as a painter and printmaker as well as a writer, and that slight cross-disciplinary aura suits the novel. It feels like the work of someone attentive to composition, distortion, and the odd emotional charge of surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"892\"\u003eThis edition isn’t rare in a collector’s sense, but it is exactly the kind of out-of-the-way Australian literary fiction that is especially for readers interested in neglected local fiction from the late 70s and 80s orbit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44259540500563,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-20T130824.005.png?v=1773972519","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/feral-palit-by-robin-wallace-crabbe","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}