{"product_id":"9780008694913","title":"Butcher","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Oates, Joyce Carol\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 22 May 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 198 x 23 | 240g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Gripping … Bravura storytelling'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e VOGUE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e FINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women's asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state – women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner' STEPHEN KING, via X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A triumph of style and brio’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Terrifying' FLAUNT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Vividly and compellingly-drawn'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e iNEWS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darling Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54867495551300,"sku":"9780008694913","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/1265\/8244\/files\/9780008694913.jpg?v=1754909968","url":"https:\/\/darlingreadsbooks.com\/products\/9780008694913","provider":"Darling Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}