{"product_id":"shattuck-ben-the-history-of-sound","title":"Shattuck, Ben - The History of Sound","description":"In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines\nthe unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are\nentwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattuck's ingenious collection,\neach story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about\nthe previous, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed, history is refracted,\nand deep emotional connections are woven through characters and\nfamilies.\nThe haunting title story recalls the journey of two men who meet around a piano\nin a smoky, dim bar, only to spend a summer walking the Maine woods\ncollecting folk songs in the shadow of the First World War, forever marked by\nthe odyssey. Decades later, in another story, a woman discovers the wax cylinders\nrecorded that fateful summer while cleaning out her new house in Maine.\nShattuck's inventive, exquisite stories transport readers from 1700s Nantucket\nto the contemporary woods of New Hampshire and beyond-into landscapes\nboth enduring and unmistakably modern. Memories, artefacts, paintings, and\njournals resurface in surprising and poignant ways among evocative beaches,\nforests, and orchards, revealing the secrets, misunderstandings, and love that\nlinger across centuries.\nWritten with breathtaking humanity and humor, The History of Sound is a love\nletter to New England, a radiant conversation between past and present, and a\nmoving meditation on the abiding search for home.\n\nNOW A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING PAUL\nMESCAL AND JOSH O'CONNOR\n'Triumphant' The Times\n'Stellar' Daily Mail\n'Exceptionally accomplished' The Scotsman\n'Exquisite' Sunday Post","brand":"Swift Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50224114303254,"sku":"RMX-49506","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/69c019403d75caa313abab294bb7c990.jpg?v=1752062967","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/shattuck-ben-the-history-of-sound","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}