{"product_id":"9781564782564","title":"Hortense Is Abducted","description":"-- First paperback edition.\u003cbr\u003e-- In this madcap metafictional mystery a 22-year-old philosophy student (Hortense) is kidnapped and a dog is murdered -- the imaginary country of Poldevia is somehow involved. Arranged in the form of a sestina (replete with authorial asides and plenty of puns, jokes and wordplay), this is the second installment in Roubaud's popular and widely acclaimed Hortense series.\u003cbr\u003e-- A professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre and a long time member of Oulipo, the Workshop for Potential Literature, Jacques Roubaud is the author of several novels and works of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e-- First published in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive (1989).","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045152932080,"sku":"9781564782564","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564782564_p0.jpg?v=1763758148","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564782564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}