{"product_id":"the-eve-of-saint-venus-0393009157","title":"The Eve of Saint Venus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393009157\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Burgess, Anthony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis romp through a rural English manor and its ritualistic mannerisms is a glittering entertainment, a grab-bag of allusions, images, and rhetorical gems that Burgess (an opulent king of the Queens English) profligately casts away like mere baubles. . . . [His] verbal and dramatic alchemy turns the dross of caricature inscribed on the pedestal of an engaging fable. Sensuous, irreverent, erudite. . . . An epithalamium to the sacred, happy marriage of language and literature. -Saturday Review Here is a midsummer nights dream of a novel, Anthony Burgess in a mood of comic whimsy. A baronet, Sir Benjamin Drayton, has received a consignment of stone statues of gods and goddesses, including Venus. A ring slipped on Venuss finger by a young man about to be married upsets a number of arrangements, including the wedding plans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51931105657120,"sku":"NEW0393009157","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-eve-of-saint-venus-0393009157","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}