{"product_id":"9781681371382","title":"Melville: A Novel","description":"In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel \u003ci\u003eWhite-Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eMelville: A Novel \u003c\/i\u003eimagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eighty years after it appeared in English, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essai,\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelville: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e—part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176190787824,"sku":"9781681371382","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681371382_p0.jpg?v=1763692753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681371382","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}