{"product_id":"9781910301234","title":"The Red Bird","description":"The Red Bird is the latest work of speculative fiction by John Fraser of whom the distinguished poet and Booker Prize nominee John Fuller has recently written:\u003cp\u003e'I am convinced that he is the most original novelist of our time. His work has become an internal dialogue of intuitions and counter-intuitions that just happens to take the form of conversations between inscrutable characters. But really it is a rich texture of poetic perceptions, frequently reaching for the aphoristic, but rooted in sidelong debate and weird analogies.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Red Bird a group of associates, some close, some distant - all habitués of a New York pub The Empty Room - decide to leave the States to try an experiment in the Sahel. Prompted by economic and sentimental interests, and by curiosity and ignorance, and having set up a trading post and motel in the desert, their friendships begin to fall dramatically apart in a quest for power, and murder ensues...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aesop Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019391746288,"sku":"9781910301234","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910301234_p0.jpg?v=1763626399","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910301234","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}