{"product_id":"9781590209806","title":"The Balloonist: A Novel","description":"As in the best of Jules Verne or Albert Sanchez Pinol, The Balloonist is a gripping and surreal yarn, chilling and comic by turn, that brilliantly reinvents the Arctic adventure.\u003cbr\u003eIt is July 1897, at the northernmost reach of the inhabited world. A Swedish scientist, an American journalist, and a young, French-speaking adventurer climb into a wicker gondola suspended beneath a huge, red-and-white balloon. The ropes are cut, the balloon rises, and the three begin their voyage: an attempt to become the first people to set foot on the North Pole, and return, borne on the wind. Philip Pullman says in his foreword: \"Once I open any of MacDonald Harris’s novels I find it almost impossible not to turn and read on, so delightful is the sensation of a sharp intelligence at work. In The Balloonist , we see all of his qualities at their best.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050089988336,"sku":"9781590209806","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590209806_p0.jpg?v=1763806864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590209806","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}