{"product_id":"juice-1","title":"Juice","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you've never read him before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A masterful story for the ages . . . a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weep.' TARA JUNE WINCH, GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, JUICE will stab your conscience and break your heart.' EMMA DONOGHUE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A searing but essential look at Earth after the human-induced apocalypse. Too real to be true. Too true to be real.' BOB BROWN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place - middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sun-baked trash. They're exhausted, traumatised, desperate now. But as a refuge, this is the most promising place they've seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProblem is, they're not alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins a searing, propulsive journey through a life whose central challenge is not simply a matter of survival, but of how to maintain human decency as everyone around you falls ever further into barbarism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A barnstorming, coruscating work of fiction, a heavyweight literary novel that sits squarely in the growing canon of \"climate fiction\" and it feels to me to be an instant classic of that genre. I strongly recommend it.' EMILY H WILSON, NEW SCIENTIST (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Juice, Winton has said, means \"human resilience and moral courage\", and there is that in spades in this complex, riveting book already being hailed as a masterpiece.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is page-turning stuff, gripping and awfully gratifying . . . Winton's ending is a masterstroke, the heart-in-your-mouth final chapter one of the best things I've read in a long time.' RACHEL SEIFFERT, GUARDIAN UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Exciting . . . ambitious . . . Juice breaks new ground to face the climate emergency.' THE CONVERSATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Every machine-tooled sentence is its own reward . . . the sheer length of the novel becomes its greatest pleasure. Winton drives Juice towards its conclusion with a narrative force that feels almost cyclonic.' GEORDIE WILLIAMSON, THE AUSTRALIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Full of surprises and stunning originality.' SIMON SMART, ABC ONLINE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A must-read masterpiece from one of Australia's most celebrated writers.' STEPHEN ROMEI, SATURDAY PAPER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Blistering . . . propulsive, addictive.' JOE RUBBO, READINGS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Electrifying, sobering, grimly compelling . . . Juice is an act of hope, a belief in persuasion, in the power of stories.' JULIA BAIRD, ABC ONLINE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Winton powerfully captures the cumulative damage of combat and betrayal, writing movingly about the way it isolates the protagonist.' JAMES BRADLEY, THE SPECTATOR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Chilling.'THE AGE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Some of the most high-octane thriller writing I've come across.' LUKE KENNARD, THE TELEGRAPH (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Thrilling . . . utterly absorbing.' CLAIRE ADAM, IRISH TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A profound as well as an enthralling novel.' AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Instant classic . . . in a class of its own.' AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46015189549227,"sku":"9781761344916","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/3732\/9579\/files\/photo1_29452249-daea-48aa-985d-c60cae33fc53.jpg?v=1767398584","url":"https:\/\/notjustbooks.com.au\/products\/juice-1","provider":"Not Just Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}