{"id":5731,"date":"2015-01-20T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385352604"},"modified":"2015-01-20T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T05:30:00","slug":"glow-by-ned-beauman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/20\/glow-by-ned-beauman\/","title":{"rendered":"Glow by Ned Beauman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385352604\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385352604\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385352604\">Glow<\/a> A novel<br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=220168\">Ned Beauman<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Hardcover<\/b>, 256 pages | Knopf | Fiction &#8211; Thrillers; Fiction &#8211; Literary; Fiction &#8211; Urban Life | <b>$25.95<\/b> | January 20, 2015 | 978-0-385-35260-4 (0-385-35260-3)<\/p>\n<p><p><b>South London, May 2010: foxes are behaving strangely, Burmese immigrants are going missing, and everyone is trying to get hold of a new party drug called Glow. A young man suffering from a rare sleep disorder will uncover the connections between all these anomalies in this taut, riveting new novel by a young writer hailed by <i>The Guardian <\/i>as &ldquo;playful, arresting, unnerving, opulent, rude and&mdash;above all&mdash;deliciously, startlingly, exuberantly fresh.&rdquo;&#160;<br \/><\/b><br \/>Twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days walking Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his nights at raves in warehouses and launderettes. When his friend Theo vanishes without a trace, Raf&rsquo;s efforts to find him will lead straight into the heart of a global corporate conspiracy. Meanwhile, he&rsquo;s falling in love with a beautiful young woman he met at one of those raves, but he&rsquo;ll soon discover that there is far more to Cherish than meets the eye.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Combining the pace, drama, and explosive plot twists of a thriller with his trademark intellectual, linguistic, and comedic pyrotechnics, <i>Glow<\/i> is Ned Beauman&rsquo;s most compelling, virtuosic, and compulsively readable novel yet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385352604\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385352604\" border=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385352604\">Glow<\/a> A novel<br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=220168\">Ned Beauman<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Hardcover<\/b>, 256 pages | Knopf | Fiction &#8211; Thrillers; Fiction &#8211; Literary; Fiction &#8211; Urban Life | <b>$25.95<\/b> | January 20, 2015 | 978-0-385-35260-4 (0-385-35260-3)<\/p>\n<p><b>South London, May 2010: foxes are behaving strangely, Burmese immigrants are going missing, and everyone is trying to get hold of a new party drug called Glow. A young man suffering from a rare sleep disorder will uncover the connections between all these anomalies in this taut, riveting new novel by a young writer hailed by <i>The Guardian <\/i>as &ldquo;playful, arresting, unnerving, opulent, rude and&mdash;above all&mdash;deliciously, startlingly, exuberantly fresh.&rdquo;&nbsp;<br \/><\/b><br \/>Twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days walking Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his nights at raves in warehouses and launderettes. When his friend Theo vanishes without a trace, Raf&rsquo;s efforts to find him will lead straight into the heart of a global corporate conspiracy. Meanwhile, he&rsquo;s falling in love with a beautiful young woman he met at one of those raves, but he&rsquo;ll soon discover that there is far more to Cherish than meets the eye.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Combining the pace, drama, and explosive plot twists of a thriller with his trademark intellectual, linguistic, and comedic pyrotechnics, <i>Glow<\/i> is Ned Beauman&rsquo;s most compelling, virtuosic, and compulsively readable novel yet.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}