{"product_id":"9781904130284","title":"A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. Set up rather like an encyclopedia, and containing urgent information about pretty much everything--from the Big Bang to the second shooter on the grassy knoll--Greg Williamson's A MOST MARVELOUS PIECE OF LUCK is a collection of sonnets unlike any other. The main character, an unnamed Everyman--a salesman, a poet, a conspiracy wonk, \"the last man left alive\"--a (somewhat) loveable loser, gets knocked off in the ninth line of every entry and is thereby condemned to being \"old-fashioned, out of step, passé\" for the duration.\u003cp\u003eThough full of science, A MOST MARVELOUS PIECE OF LUCK is anything but forbidding, and though full of dead people, and inescapably dark, it also manages, somehow, to be hilariously funny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Silent Partner\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eErrors in the Script\u003c\/em\u003e is at the top of his game in this wildly inventive, formally spectacular and hugely accomplished book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waywiser Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043708125424,"sku":"9781904130284","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781904130284_p0.jpg?v=1763612982","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781904130284","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}