{"product_id":"lantern-lecture-by-adam-mars-jones","title":"'Lantern Lecture' by Adam Mars-Jones","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"39\" data-end=\"543\"\u003eAdmired by writers and critics, less interested in broad appeal than in precision, moral ambiguity and absurdity. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"39\" data-end=\"543\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"271\"\u003eLantern Lecture\u003c\/em\u003e gathers together a sequence of interconnected novellas that move between crime, satire, psychological comedy and social observation. Characters drift across stories, chance encounters reverberate, and apparently ordinary situations reveal themselves as quietly grotesque.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"1101\"\u003eThe title novella draws on the real-life Black Panther kidnapping case, but throughout the collection sensational events matter less than the ways people misunderstand one another, construct elaborate private logics, and stumble through systems of class, family and desire. Even the most unlikely premises are anchored by an acute psychological realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1362\"\u003eThis is a collection for readers who enjoy the dry intelligence of Alan Hollinghurst, Penelope Fitzgerald or early Ian McEwan, but with a distinctly eccentric comic register. One of the strongest early books by a writer whose fiction deserves wider attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1389\" data-end=\"1484\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicador paperback, 1982. First Picador edition, following the 1981 Faber \u0026amp; Faber first edition. Very good condition. Light shelf wear and rubbing to the covers, faint stain to the preliminary copyright page, with a firm binding and otherwise clean, bright pages.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45842945835091,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-20T095445.769.png?v=1784505307","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/lantern-lecture-by-adam-mars-jones","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}