{"product_id":"the-only-harmless-great-thing-by-brooke-bolander","title":"‘The Only Harmless Great Thing’ by Brooke Bolander","description":"\u003ch4\u003eAn alternative history built from two real American atrocities: the 1916 death of circus elephant Topsy and the “Radium Girls”, factory workers poisoned by radioactive paint in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBolander folds the histories together and then detonates them, imagining a world in which elephants possess language, memory and political consciousness, and are drawn into the same machinery of industrial exploitation. The novella moves between timelines and voices — workers, elephants, managers, myth — refusing the clean separation between human and animal suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBolander’s elephants become archivists of injury, carrying stories across generations while corporations attempt the more familiar trick of turning damage into acceptable collateral. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTor.com \/ Tom Doherty Associates, New York, 2018. First edition. Paperback. Very light shelf wear; internally clean and unmarked, binding firm. Near fine condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46236464414803,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_89.png?v=1789181412","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-only-harmless-great-thing-by-brooke-bolander","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}