{"product_id":"9780061228490","title":"Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Intrepid journalist and novelist William T. Vollman’s colossal body of work stands unsurpassed for its range, moral imperative, and artistry.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c?xml \u0026#58;namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn\u0026#58;schemas-microsoft-com\u0026#58;office\u0026#58;office\" \/\u003e\u003co\u003e\u003c\/o\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003co\u003e \u003c\/o\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam T. Vollmann, the National Book Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eEurope Central,\u003c\/em\u003e offers a charming, evocative, and piercing examination of the ancient Japanese tradition of Noh theatre and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty.  \u003cem\u003eKissing the Mask\u003c\/em\u003e is the first major book on Noh\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eby an American writer since the 1916 publication the classic study \u003cem\u003ePisan Cantos and the Noh \u003c\/em\u003eby Ezra Pound. But \u003cem\u003eKissing the Mask \u003c\/em\u003eis pure Vollman—illustrated with photos by the author with provocative related side-discussions on femininity, transgender, kabuki, pornography, geishas, and more.\u003co\u003e\u003c\/o\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007967674608,"sku":"9780061228490","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061228490_p0.jpg?v=1763768297","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061228490","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}