{"product_id":"9780008647506","title":"Quint","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Lautner, Robert \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 16\/01\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008647506,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction’ GILES COREN, THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Before there was Jaws, there was… QUINT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Quint: the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis, only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS. So much more than a fisherman – a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘If Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar… one of this year’s literary miracles' IRISH INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century’s first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53589475557749,"sku":"9780008647506","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008647506.jpg?v=1729595612","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008647506","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}