{"product_id":"the-beat-of-the-pendulum","title":"The Beat of the Pendulum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA ‘found novel’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED: New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThe Wish Child\u003c\/em\u003e comes something unexpected and fearless: a found novel. \u003cem\u003eThe Beat of the Pendulum\u003c\/em\u003e is the result of one year in which Chidgey drew upon the language she encountered on a daily basis, such as news stories, radio broadcasts, emails, social media, street signs, TV, and many conversations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs she filters and shapes the linguistic chaos of her recordings, different characters emerge – her family, including her young daughter, and her husband, mother and sister, her friends, and an extended family formed through surrogacy and donation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her chronicling of moments of loveliness, strangeness, comedy and poetry and sorrow, Chidgey plays with the nature of time and its passing. \u003cem\u003eThe Beat of the Pendulum\u003c\/em\u003e is also an exploration of human memory – how we acquire it, and how we lose it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bravely experimental and immersive work draws us into the detail, reverberation and transience of a year in a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘An important and deeply imaginative novel. Chidgey experiments with and opens up new structural territory for what contemporary fiction might be. Readers should be prepared to be challenged; equally, they should be prepared to be thrilled’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew Zealand Herald\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘An interesting literary exercise, not entirely relaxing, fascinating and interesting, but also one of those books that gives you an ‘in’ into a literary circle. Enormously pleasurable’ \u003cstrong\u003eRadio New Zealand\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Remarkable...The descriptions of her mother’s illness are handled with both grace and a sense of pre-emptive commemoration. The relationship between grandmother and grandchild, one fogging in memory, one coming into memory, is done with admirable and touching truth’\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePaperback: 496pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Lightning Books (January 2019)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN: 9781785630903\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eye Books Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12192526958654,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/products\/Screen_Shot_2018-10-29_at_12.48.27.png?v=1540817430","url":"https:\/\/www.eyebooksgroup.com\/products\/the-beat-of-the-pendulum","provider":"Eye Books Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}