{"product_id":"lowly-creatures-a-novel","title":"Lowly Creatures: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn This AwardWinning French Novel, Two Friends From Contrasting Economic Backgrounds, One Privileged And One WorkingClass, Are Drawn And Eventually Divided By Their Shared Passion For Earthworms And Their Mission To Save The EnvironmentYoung Men Whose Parallel Destinies Illustrate The Difficulty Of Entering Adulthood In A World Threatened By Ecological Disaster.Lowly Creatures Follows The Twin Destinies Of Two Young Men, Kevin And Arthur, Each Who Has Vowed To Dedicate His Life To Earthworms To Save The Earth From Impending Ecological Disaster. Their Shared Passion Brings Them Together At A Paris AgriTech School, Then Drives Them Apart As They Pursue Divergent Paths.Arthur, An Anxious, Idealistic, Man Raised In A Bourgeois Family, Moves To Rural Normandy With His Girlfriend To Attempt A ThoreauLike Experiment Of Introducing Earthworms To The Soil Of His GrandfatherS Abandoned Farm. Kevin, The Handsome, FreeSpirited, Pansexual Son Of Farmers From The French Countryside, Partners With An Ambitious Business School Classmate To Create A WormComposting Startup. Arthur Thinks Kevin Has Sold Out, While Kevin Is Frustrated By The Hopelessness Of ArthurS Plan.Their Relationship Devolves Further When ArthurS Shallow, Elitist Girlfriend Moves Back To Paris, Where She Becomes Romantically Involved With Kevin. As The MenS Lives Spiral Out Of ControlExperiencing Fraud, Failed Experiments, EcoTerrorism, And Other Dark ChallengesThey Eventually Worm Their Way Back Into Each OtherS World, Undeniably Changed, Yet Still Committed To Each Other.A Surprise Literary Sensation In France, Lowly Creatures Is A Provocative And Philosophical Exploration Of How Idealistic Young People Navigate The Moral Dilemma Between Living According To Principle And Working Within The Capitalist System To Create Change. Brilliantly Insightful And Inciteful, Gaspard KoenigS AwardWinning Novel Digs Deep Into The Contradictions, Temptations, And Doubts Of A Generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpercollins Children\\S Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47958543171829,"sku":"DADAX0063416824","price":32.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/81EMtWLbeSL.jpg?v=1775576064","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/lowly-creatures-a-novel","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}