{"product_id":"9781935869504","title":"The Scarlet Plague","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack London’s plague novel, in which the world’s population has been reduced to a few scattered bands of primitive scavengers, has influenced subsequent science-fiction apocalypses and dystopias — from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four to the movies Road Warrior and Idiocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley professor of literature recounts the chilling sequence of events which led to his current lowly state — a gruesome pandemic which killed nearly every living soul on the planet, in a matter of days. Modern civilization tottered and fell, and a new race of barbarians — the western world's brutalized workers — assumed power everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the space of a few decades, all learning has been lost. Unlike the professor on Gilligan's Island, the narrator is the least useful member of a thriving tribe, whose younger generation (who boast names like Hoo-Hoo and Har-Lip) are mostly descended from a the tribe's brutish founder. He was known only by the title of his former occupation, so the tribe's name is: Chauffeur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bleak, at times darkly humorous glimpse into the future by an author best known for red-blooded adventure yarns set in the Klondike Gold Rush.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cursor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019572527344,"sku":"9781935869504","price":8.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935869504_p0.jpg?v=1763657110","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935869504","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}