{"product_id":"auguries-russell-fox-9780595674329","title":"Auguries: A Book According to Catter Knopfler","description":"\u003ci\u003eCATTER LIVES!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn improbable classic of rural American literature, \u003ci\u003eAUGURIES\u003c\/i\u003e is the harrowing tale of fourteen year-old Catter Knopfler, who is removed from his home in the farm town of Vesuvius and institutionalized-until he escapes into the winter city streets, a hunchbacked fugitive in a stolen purple confessional curtain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst offered for publication in 1986 as 'an uplifting story of incest, murder, and grotesque suffering,\" \u003ci\u003eAUGURIES\u003c\/i\u003e met with a chilling reception. No publisher would touch it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut like its doughty narrator, \u003ci\u003eAUGURIES\u003c\/i\u003e endured. Photocopied, passed from hand to hand, and advertised only by word of mouth, the rejected typescript of \u003ci\u003eAUGURIES\u003c\/i\u003e became an almost instant rarity of the American underground press. While reportedly widely pirated abroad in an unauthorized Chinese translation, the corporate-controlled publishing industry in the United States conspired for years to keep \u003ci\u003eAUGURIES\u003c\/i\u003e off bookstore shelves. By the time \u003ci\u003eCATTER LIVES!\u003c\/i\u003e began to appear emblazoned on the walls of the New York City subway, \u003ci\u003eAUGURIES\u003c\/i\u003e had transcended censorship, critical indifference, and its own gnomic title to become a mythic literary phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Russell Fox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595674321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595674329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Russell Fox","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47757643415807,"sku":"9780595674329","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a5602c2-79eb-4a6e-bdcd-3d9d8fbd4e61.jpg?v=1765510476","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/auguries-russell-fox-9780595674329","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}