{"product_id":"9780864926562","title":"The Rest is Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmazon.ca First Novel Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOttawa Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating and complex plot. . . . Fotheringham holds the tension to the show-stopping end.\" — \u003ci\u003eChronicle Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the backwoods of Nova Scotia, a man has decided to withdraw from the world to simplify his life. He builds a cabin and plants a garden. He befriends the few people he can reach within biking distance — an old man living on the shore and a woman who may be as damaged as he is. In fits and starts, he recounts a story to his new friends, a tale of youthful passions, of idealism and rebellion, of love and of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a reason for the man's self-enforced exile, one that has implications beyond the confines of the forest. As news reports trickle in of a brewing environmental catastrophe on a global scale — a genetically modified strain of plastic-eating bacteria creating chaos as it devours both waste and material vital for day-to-day life — the unsettling nature of his confession becomes clear. The world will never be the same again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold in themes, sensual in language, and astonishing in its implications, \u003ci\u003eThe Rest is Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement. Intimate in setting yet grand in scope, Scott Fotheringham has penned a frighteningly realistic portrait of the consequences we may all yet face for believing we had the right to crack open Pandora's box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fotheringham, Scott","offers":[{"title":"Hardback\/Local","offer_id":42468376871136,"sku":"","price":17.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a468af76-c03b-47f2-b0a8-904d9ec116ec.jpg?v=1645558193","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9780864926562","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}