{"product_id":"9781590178478","title":"A School for Fools","description":"By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, \u003ci\u003eA School for Fools\u003c\/i\u003e confounds all  expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but  two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the  “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with  frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for  gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness  running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of  childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the  dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale  either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with  reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir  Nabokov, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.”","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174272745712,"sku":"9781590178478","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590178478_p0.jpg?v=1763805968","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590178478","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}