{"product_id":"the-eye-of-goliath","title":"The Eye of Goliath","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Impossible to stop reading\", Mariana Enríquez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this deliriously inventive twist on \u003cem\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\u003c\/em\u003e, Argentine Diego Muzzio infuses classic gothic atmosphere with disturbingly modern psychological horror. Translated by Rahul Bery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an old sanatorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Dr Edward Pierce develops experimental therapies to treat patients traumatised by the First World War. Late one night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on a bizarre case: David Bradley, an engineer who was sent to inspect the conditions of a lighthouse on a desolate island in southern Argentina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis once rational, disciplined man returned completely mute, his body overwhelmed by a single compulsion: to swim and swim, in any environment, to the point of total exhaustion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Pierce becomes fixated on Bradley's diary, a macabre record of his increasing derangement, he explores strange new treatments in which the lines between doctor and patient begin dangerously to blur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mesmerizing... I loved it\", Graeme Macrae Burnet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Diego Muzzio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54785407025491,"sku":"9781805680369","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1071\/6997\/2563\/files\/9781805680369.webp?v=1789925806","url":"https:\/\/www.vanitaspress.co.uk\/products\/the-eye-of-goliath","provider":"Vanitas Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}