{"product_id":"9780811222426","title":"Robinson (New Directions Classic)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA suspense novel about three castaways marooned on an island owned by an eccentric recluse.\u003c\/p\u003e January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. Robinson, a determined loner, proves a fair if misanthropic host to his uninvited guests; he encourages January to keep a journal: as \"an occupation for my mind, and I fancied that I might later dress it up for a novel. That was most peculiar, as things transpired, for I did not then anticipate how the journal would turn upon me, so that having survived the plane disaster, I should nearly meet my death through it.\" In \u003cem\u003eRobinson,\u003c\/em\u003e Muriel Spark's wonderful second novel, under the tropical glare and strange fogs of the tiny island, we find a volcano, a ping-pong playing cat, a dealer in occult as well as lucky charms, flying ants, sexual tension, a disappearance, blackmail, andperhapsmurder. Everything astounds, confounds, and convinces, frighteningly. \"She is,\" as Charles Alva Hoyt once put it, \"the Jane Austen of the Surrealists.\" Robinson, a unique and marvelous novel, is another display of the powers of \"the most gifted and innovative British novelist\" (\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e). In the work of Dame Murielin the last words of Robinson \"immediately all things are possible.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128437457136,"sku":"9780811222426","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811222426_p0.jpg?v=1763741964","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811222426","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}