{"product_id":"9781409076278","title":"Café des Artistes","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the Café des Artistes. Your host, the owner, bartender, master of ceremonies and only other guest: John Hartley Williams. Here you will be entertained and diverted - by bizarre stories of mapless roads and unreal cities, the Ostrich Palisades and the erotic stones of Bonehenge; by a spooked version of Rimbaud's 'La Bateau Ivre'; by encounters with Malcolm Lowry, the floating dead, the 'old men behind the waterfall' and the knitted poet; by poems about donkey jackets and dancing with donkeys, and a one-sided conversation with a decidedly un-Romantic polar bear two doors down from Dove Cottage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong celebrated for his ranging, restless imagination, his baroque, elliptical narratives, his manic humour and maverick stance, Williams returns with another invitation to join him for a jug or two of wine in his out-of-kilter universe: a world that is both strange, and strangely familiar. Welcome to the Café des Artistes!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138075148528,"sku":"9781409076278","price":14.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781409076278_p0.jpg?v=1763719601","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781409076278","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}