{"product_id":"seduction-of-the-minotaur-anas-nin-9780804011495","title":"Seduction of the Minotaur","description":"\"Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian's recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed.... With her first swallow of air she inhaled a drug of forgetfulness well known to adventurers.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eSeduction of the Minotaur\u003c\/i\u003e is the fifth and final volume of Ana? Nin's continuous novel known as \u003ci\u003eCities of the Interior.\u003c\/i\u003e First published by Swallow Press in 1961, the story follows the travels of the protagonist Lillian through the tropics to a Mexican city loosely based on Acapulco, which Nin herself visited in 1947 and described in the fifth volume of her Diary. As Lillian seeks the warmth and sensuality of this lush and intriguing city, she travels inward as well, learning that to free herself she must free the \"monster\" that has been confined in a labyrinth of her subconscious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This new Swallow Press edition includes an introduction by Anita Jarczok, author of \u003ci\u003eInventing Ana? Nin: Celebrity Authorship and the Creation of an Icon.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Swallow Press publishes all five volumes that make up \u003ci\u003eCities of the Interior: Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeduction of the Minotaur.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ana? Nin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804011494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804011495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.35d","brand":"Ana? Nin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046518911231,"sku":"9780804011495","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e512075-7aa8-401d-bd01-7636cc1b2fd7.jpg?v=1684985011","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/seduction-of-the-minotaur-anas-nin-9780804011495","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}