{"product_id":"one-night-in-copan-w-e-gutman-9781771430166","title":"One Night in Copan: Chronicles of Madness Foretold, Tales of Mystery, Fantasy and Horror","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eA PALER SHADE OF RED -- Memoirs of a Radical; FLIGHT FROM EIN SOF\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTHE INVENTOR\u003c\/i\u003e comes this collection of gritty, satirical, chilling, iconoclastic, always ferocious and unrepentant dystopias. Death and virgin birth, immortality and cannibalism, paradise and hell, the cosmos, bigotry and vigilantism, close encounters, wars to end all wars, hallucinations, disquieting prophecies and insanity -- mainly insanity -- are the forces that drive \u003ci\u003eONE NIGHT IN COPÁN\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eOscillating between parody and polemic, allegory and unalloyed horror, paradox and hyperbole, the apocalyptic canvases W. E. Gutman paints can be read as one man's antidote for the despotism of inflexible creeds and the paralyzing effects of groupthink. \u003cbr\u003eA work of hyper-realism, this collection of thirteen tales uses bizarre, fantastic, sometimes ghoulish, always disquieting devices to capture and expose truths that people ensconced in ideological cocoons ignore, shirk or refute. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBorn in Paris, W. E. Gutman is a veteran journalist and author. A former writer at \u003ci\u003eOMNI\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and U.S. editor of \u003ci\u003eScience in the USSR\u003c\/i\u003e, he covered politics and human rights in Central America from 1994 to 2006. He lives with his wife in southern California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. E. Gutman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771430168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771430166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e CCB Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. E. Gutman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800553304319,"sku":"9781771430166","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/one-night-in-copan-w-e-gutman-9781771430166","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}