{"product_id":"orbital","title":"Orbital (Booker Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Booker Prize 2024\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Hawthornden Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003cbr\u003eOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eStephen Colbert's The Late Show Book Club Pick\u003cbr\u003eA Best Book of the Year from \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of Fall from the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ravishingly beautiful.\"\u003c\/b\u003e - Joshua Ferris, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, \u003cem\u003eOrbital\u003c\/em\u003e deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts--from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan--have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfound and contemplative, \u003cem\u003eOrbital\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving elegy to our environment and planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamantha Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, \u003ci\u003eOrbital, The Western Wind, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDear Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll Is Song\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, and one work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Shapeless Unease\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eOrbital\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, and her other work has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e First Book Award, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She lives in Bath, UK, and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samantha Harvey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49433667895581,"sku":"9780802163622","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780802163622.jpg?v=1733426122","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/orbital","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}