{"product_id":"9780140131963","title":"The Ice-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEurope Central\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWatch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eNo Immediate Danger\u003c\/i\u003e, coming in April of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call \"Vinland the Good.\" The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples—and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise—he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048654487792,"sku":"9780140131963","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140131963_p0.jpg?v=1769913854","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140131963","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}