{"product_id":"2940014259910","title":"The Duke in His Castle","description":"THE DUKE IN HIS CASTLE by Nebula Award-nominated author and award-winning artist Vera Nazarian is a dark, lush, erotic fantasy novella in the vein of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, with interior illustrations by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work is a 2008 Nebula Award Finalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRossian, the young Duke of Violet, wastes away in mad solitude, unable to leave the confines of his decadent castle grounds because of a mysterious invisible barrier...until a strange female intruder arrives at the castle bearing a box of bones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vera Nazarian combines the wry and poignant charm of Hans Christian Andersen with the subversive wallop of Angela Carter in crafting this gem of a fairy tale. No longer merely a promising writer, Nazarian has arrived.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Paul Witcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vera Nazarian is a writer seemingly so full of story that it just comes bubbling uncontrollably out of her... The Duke in his Castle shows her at the peak of her form in a deceptively simple tale that probes the nature of life and death, of power and succumbing, and ultimately of good and both the evils-active evil and the evil born from apathy.\"\u003cbr\u003e-John Grant, Co-Editor of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY","brand":"Norilana Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121084416240,"sku":"2940014259910","price":3.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014259910_p0.jpg?v=1763604415","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014259910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}