{"product_id":"the-play-of-gilgamesh-edwin-morgan-9781857548419","title":"The Play of Gilgamesh","description":"Edwin Morgans verse play translation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh brings an ancient story to life in a supple, vigorous idiom that moves easily between ritual, comedy and moments of intense beauty. Here a god-king, a great city builder, learns the timeless truth that the only immortality lies in what will be remembered and recorded of his actions. Gilgameshs quest takes him, and the audience, on a journey through a world that is both mythic and familiar, inhabited by terrifying demons and disappeared political prisoners, by gods and singing transvestites and a Glaswegian jester and by Enkidu, the beloved child of nature who dies of a virus in the blood, through whom Gilgamesh learns to understand the meaning of loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edwin Morgan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1857548418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781857548419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.34h x 5.50w x 0.34d","brand":"Edwin Morgan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080176496895,"sku":"9781857548419","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70bc09aa-93b7-4693-adbb-cff92de630fe.jpg?v=1685485343","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-play-of-gilgamesh-edwin-morgan-9781857548419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}