{"product_id":"9781037407161","title":"Ply","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Ply\u003c\/i\u003e is majestic . . . sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control' - David Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are the last moments of the world as it's always been known. Reality now begins anew.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eTrust \u003c\/i\u003eturns to America's future with \u003ci\u003ePly.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCenturies from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher - someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market or, in her case, to power the underground music scene she adores. It is a high-risk life, and now she is being followed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her closest friends and even her own identity are put into question - all while following a thread leading to a groundbreaking experiment that, if she can source the electricity to power it, could change the fabric of reality itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, \u003ci\u003ePly \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerfully humane novel that interrogates the role of technology in a deeply changed society. Both an electrifying thriller and a profound novel of ideas, it offers a hopeful glimpse of a new world that may be growing out of the cracks and fissures we see all around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003ePly\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild ride' - Service95\u003cbr\u003e'I highly recommend [it]' - Sarah Jessica Parker\u003cbr\u003e'Compulsively readable' - \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders are blown away by \u003ci\u003ePly\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It shook my soul the way only true art can'\u003cbr\u003e'My favorite book of this year'\u003cbr\u003e'In my view, he is perhaps the most important novelist of this century'\u003cbr\u003e'What a phenomenal, ambitious novel'\u003cbr\u003e'Rarely has a novel left me feeling that my relationship with the universe itself has subtly changed'\u003cbr\u003e'A masterfully creative work of fiction'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Díaz, Hernán","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58773392327030,"sku":"9781037407161","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1208\/4146\/files\/9781037407161.jpg?v=1789824168","url":"https:\/\/chepstowbooks.co.uk\/products\/9781037407161","provider":"Chepstow Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}