{"product_id":"9780992758899","title":"Medusa","description":"John Fraser's Medusa is a stunning fable for our times, in which the stories of Medusa, the Gorgon and the French ship Medusa are intertwined to create a Pilgrim's Progress for the 21st century.\u003cp\u003e'Medusa is a trip, a bending of the legends. It is a symphonic poem, where at the end, we even hear a few notes of a hymn to joy. The fragments of myth, legend and belief drift round like harmonies that seek resolution. But this mode is post-modern, post-Christian; it is about the end - yet there is no end: it is story. The resulting tale is an apocryphal blast and a literary tour de force that uncannily captures the zeitgeist.' (Jean-Paul Bouler)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In Fraser's fiction the reader rides as on a switchback or luge of impetuous attention, with effects flashing by at virtuoso speeds. The characters seem to be unwitting agents of chaos, however much wise reflection Fraser bestows upon them; they move with shrugging self-assurance through circumstances as richly detailed and as without reliable compass-points as a Chinese scroll.' (John Fuller)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aesop Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034842906864,"sku":"9780992758899","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780992758899_p0.jpg?v=1763898170","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780992758899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}