{"product_id":"the-dig-9781566893930","title":"The Dig","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape--for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents--is absolutely magnetic.\"--Sarah Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you.\"--\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cynan Jones's fourth novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e, is an extraordinarily powerful work--not in spite of its brevity but because of it. . . . In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique.\"--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynan Jones\u003c\/b\u003e was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Dry\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), \u003ci\u003eEverything I Found on the Beach\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), and \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eBird, Blood, Snow\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel published in the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3331840\"\u003eCynan Jones\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566893930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1566893933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC025000\"\u003ePsychological\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC045000\"\u003eFamily Life | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales in 1975. He is the author of three novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Dry\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), \u003ci\u003eEverything I Found on the Beach\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), and \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eBird, Blood, Snow\u003c\/i\u003e(2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel published in the U.S.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44447385157869,"sku":"9781566893930","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_7f2be94c-fc76-4cb5-b53e-cc51fe4f1d99.jpg?v=1700293008","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-dig-9781566893930","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}