{"product_id":"9781907737770","title":"Salty Kiss Island: Fantastika Romantique","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis anthology collects for the first time Rhys Hughes’ fantastical love stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is a fantastical love story? It isn’t quite the same as an ordinary love story. The events that take place are stranger, more extreme, full of the passion of originality, invention and magic, as well as an intensification of emotional love. Also, the voice that tells them has rather a different tone to a conventional romantic narrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003cem\u003eSalty Kiss Island\u003c\/em\u003e are set in this world and others, spanning the spectrum of possible and impossible experiences, the uncharted territories of yearning, the depths and shoals of the heart, mind and soul. They are adventure yarns, whimsies and comedies, tragedies and paradoxes. They are melancholy, gleeful, philosophic or mystical. A love of language runs through them, parallel to the love that motivates their characters to feats of preposterous heroism, luminous lunacy and grandiose gesture. They include tales of minstrels and their catastrophic serenades, dreamers sinking into sequences of ever-deeper dreams, goddesses and mermaids, sailors and devils, messages in bottles that can think and speak but never be read, shadows with an independent life and voyagers of distant galaxies who are already at their destinations before they arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Immanion Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047220691184,"sku":"9781907737770","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781907737770_p0.jpg?v=1763620228","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781907737770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}