{"product_id":"9780226042572","title":"The Maze Maker: A Novel","description":"“I address you across more than three thousand years, you who live at the conjunction of the Fish and the Water-carrier,” speaks Daedalus, an artisan, inventor, and designer born into an utterly alien family of heroes who value acts of war above all else, a world where his fellow Greeks seem driven only to destroy—an existence he feels compelled to escape.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this fictional autobiography of the father of Icarus, “Apollo’s creature,” a brilliant but flawed man, writer and sculptor Michael Ayrton harnesses the tales of the past to mold a myth for our times. We learn of Daedalus’s increasingly ambitious artifacts and inventions; his fascination with Minoan culture, commerce, and religion, and his efforts to adapt to them; how he comes to design the maze of the horned Minotaur; and how, when he decides that he must flee yet again, he builds two sets of wax wings—wings that will be instruments of his descent into the underworld, a place of both purgatory and rebirth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A compelling mix of history, fable, lore, and meditations on the enigma of art, \u003ci\u003eThe Maze Maker\u003c\/i\u003e will ensnare classicists, artists, and all lovers of story in its convolutions of life and legend. “I never understood the pattern of my life,” writes Daedalus, “so that I have blundered through it in a maze.”","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120135618800,"sku":"9780226042572","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226042572_p0.jpg?v=1769911474","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226042572","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}