{"product_id":"babel-alan-burns-9780714549170","title":"Babel","description":"\u003cp\u003eBabel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define - shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by extreme contrasts of mood and style and startling surrealist juxtapositions of images and ideas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns comic and tragic, tender and brutal, religious and blasphemous, the narrative rockets from London to the United States to Vietnam to interstellar space, familiar events are constantly fragmented and reset into new patterns, and ultimately Babel becomes a cautionary tale about the tragedy arising from attempting to build Utopia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Burns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0714549177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780714549170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Calder Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Alan Burns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136110772479,"sku":"9780714549170","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa290b59-3335-48a7-894d-09c805575d87.jpg?v=1755022377","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/babel-alan-burns-9780714549170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}