{"product_id":"the-fisher-king-a-novel-phoenix-fiction-0226677001","title":"The Fisher King: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226677001\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Powell, Anthony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious Arthurian legends, the Fisher King-the maimed and impotent ruler of a barren country of whom Perceval failed to ask the right questions. A myth with many permutations-and a blurred borderland between them-the Fisher King legend dovetails the various explanations Powell offers from his competing narrators as to why a talented young dancer would forsake her art to care for a feeble older man.Ostensibly a novel about gossip on a cruise ship, The Fisher King is much more: a highly stylized narrative infused with Greek mythology, legend, and satire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51934825513248,"sku":"NEW0226677001","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-fisher-king-a-novel-phoenix-fiction-0226677001","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}