{"product_id":"9781590208700","title":"Titus Awakes: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMervyn Peake1s Gormenghast trilogy is widely acknowledged to be, as Robertson Davies pronounced, \"a classic of our age.\"\u003c\/p\u003e In these extraordinary novels, Peake created a world where all is like a dream--lush, fantastical, and vivid. Yet it was incomplete. Parkinson's disease took Peake's life in 1968, depriving his fans of the fourth and final volume of the series, \u003cem\u003eTitus Awakes\u003c\/em\u003e except for a few tantalizing pages, after which his writing became indecipherable. Or so it seemed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In January of 2010, Peake's granddaughter found four composition books in her attic. They contained the fabled Titus Awakes in its entirety. Peake had outlined the novel for his wife, Maeve Gilmore, who had at last finished Peake's masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It starts with Titus leaving Castle Gormenghast. Peake wrote: \"With every pace he drew away from Gormenghast mountain, and from everything that belonged to his home. That night, as Titus lay asleep in the tall barn, a nightmare held him.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fans of Peake will delight in this new, wonderful novel, published one hundred years after his birth, every bit as thrilling and masterfully written as his famed trilogy.","brand":"The Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180782862576,"sku":"9781590208700","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590208700","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}