{"product_id":"2026200008550-secondhand-dancing-in-the-dark","title":"Dancing In The Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gripping work of modern literary fiction, Dancing in the Dark chronicles the interior world of Edna, a seemingly perfect housewife who retreats into obsessive domestic routine as a means of coping with a life that has quietly unravelled around her. Joan Barfoot writes with piercing psychological precision, presenting a portrait of a woman whose outward compliance masks a profound inner disintegration. The novel unfolds as a sustained, claustrophobic monologue from a psychiatric ward, where Edna recounts the choices and sacrifices that led her to commit a shocking act of violence. Barfoot argues, through Edna's controlled and haunting voice, that the domestic ideal imposed on women can become a prison of the most suffocating kind. Winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, this is a bold and unflinching examination of marriage, identity, and the quiet desperation that festers beneath a perfectly ordered surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956377858267,"sku":"2026200008550-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3a9bee56-788d-49a6-bc9a-b39b2d20cc80.png?v=1783500502","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200008550-secondhand-dancing-in-the-dark","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}