{"product_id":"blue-giant","title":"Blue Giant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlanet Earth is cooked. Abby Horne wants off.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nAbby always believed she was destined for great things. But her dream career as an industry-disrupting fashion designer went up in smoke, and her aspirations to become a world-renowned yogi and\/or save the endangered tigers proved equally fruitless. She's in her early thirties, suffering the unbearable burdens of adulthood and anonymity, when she wakes up after a drunken bender with an all-new, all-consuming purpose in life: to be the first person on Mars.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Perfect timing - Danish tech entrepreneur Tor Skovgaard is currently recruiting for a one-way mission to colonise the red planet. Abby knows this is it: her last-ditch bid for purpose and glory. And if she can't be humanity's saviour . . . . she'll settle for being its martyr.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBlue Giant\u003c\/i\u003e is an unruly eulogy for millennial optimism - a deranged love letter to a generation torn between helplessness and selfishness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 288\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImprint: University of Queensland Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSupplier: Penguin Random House Distribution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubjects: Code FA (scheme 12), Code FBA (scheme 93), Code FXN (scheme 93), Code FXE (scheme 93), black comedy; literary fiction; contemporary fiction; satire; dark humour; Mars; existential crisis; space mission; flawed female protagonist; redemption arc; absurdist; toxic friendship; growing up; disappointment; millennial; sad girl novel; hangover; mental illness; unlikeable main character; Anthropocene; climate fiction; melbourne; big time; eat the rich; anti-capitalist; late capitalism; unhinged fiction; school reunion; bullying; antihero; antiheroine; failure; ambition; ottessa moshfegh; patricia lockwood; olivia liang; sayuka murata; madeleine gray; pynchon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Queensland Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48910476542201,"sku":"9780702269240","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/4535\/6025\/files\/9780702269240.jpg?v=1787896912","url":"https:\/\/www.atticusbooksandart.com.au\/products\/blue-giant","provider":"Atticus Bookshop Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}