{"product_id":"hard-soft-wet-by-melanie-mcgrath","title":"'Hard, Soft \u0026 Wet' by Melanie McGrath","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"621\"\u003eA very late-90s artefact in the best possible way, this sits somewhere between cultural reportage, memoir, and field notes from the early commercial internet.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"621\"\u003eMcGrath writes at the moment when digital life still felt like a frontier rather than infrastructure: chat rooms, online identities, virtual intimacy, techno-utopian fantasy, and the queasy sense that bodies, desire, and selfhood were being reformatted in public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"996\"\u003eWhat makes it interesting now is precisely its date. Books like this catch the internet while it still had the aura of elsewhere: sleazy, emancipatory, ridiculous, ecstatic. A period piece of digital culture, media archaeology, or strange pre-millennium social theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"996\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFlamingo paperback, 1998 edition. Great condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44268711575635,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-23T123602.198.png?v=1774229780","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/hard-soft-wet-by-melanie-mcgrath","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}