{"product_id":"9780571325047","title":"The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an extraordinary journey through languages and across continents and millennia, from his Nigerian \u003ci\u003eLysistrata\u003c\/i\u003e to the British Raj of his version of Racine's \u003ci\u003ePh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eè\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003edre\u003c\/i\u003e, to post-Communist Europe for the film \u003ci\u003ePrometheus \u003c\/i\u003eto a one-off performance of \u003ci\u003eThe Kaisers of Carnuntum\u003c\/i\u003e at the Roman amphitheatre in Austria on the Danube, to the peace camp at Greenham Common, and from a Leeds street bonfire celebrating the defeat of Japan by the new atomic bomb to wines made from the vines on volcanoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of work filled with passion and humour that educates as it dazzles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'More than Yeats, Eliot or Auden, more than anyone writing in English this century, and perhaps the two before that as well, Harrison has demonstrated that verse drama remains a living artistic possibility.' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123832930544,"sku":"9780571325047","price":26.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571325047_p0.jpg?v=1763719598","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571325047","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}