{"product_id":"9781480461741","title":"Neveryóna: Or, The Tale of Signs and Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this novel of Nevèrÿon, a girl takes off on a dragon’s back for an adventure of amazement and wonder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the few in Nevèrÿon who can read and write, pryn has saddled a wild dragon and taken off from a mountain ledge. Self-described as an adventurer, warrior, and thief, in her journey pryn will meet plotting merchants, sinister aristocrats, half-mad villagers, and a storyteller who claims to have invented writing itself. The land of Nevèrÿon is mired in a civil war over slavery, and pryn will also find herself—for a while—fighting alongside Gorgik the Liberator, from whom she will learn the cunning she needs as she journeys further and further south in search of a sunken city; for at history’s dawn, some dangers even dragons cannot protect you from.\u003cbr\u003eThe second volume in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon cycle, \u003ci\u003eNeveryóna \u003c\/i\u003eis the longer of its two full-length novels. (The other is \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Plagues and Carnivals\u003c\/i\u003e.) An intriguing meditation on the power of language, the rise of cities, and the dawn of myth, markets, and money, it is a truly wonder-filled adventure.\u003cbr\u003eThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157952905456,"sku":"9781480461741","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480461741_p0.jpg?v=1763619747","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480461741","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}