{"product_id":"the-red-tank-john-fraser-9781494892586","title":"The Red Tank","description":"In three fables, Fraser's \u003cb\u003eThe Red Tank\u003c\/b\u003e presents founding myths and 21st century epics - viewed with a kind of Martian 'taken-abackness'. In our new globalised world, what happens to the little beings, our species, and their allies among the beasts - do they grow, becoming giant, innocent philosophers, or do they go off to rut and runt in the forest?\u003cp\u003eThe human project is once more immense: taming nature, securing peace, creating order. The protagonists are fabulous, easily the equals of ancient gods and heroes. In the first fable, \u003ci\u003eChinese Whispers\u003c\/i\u003e, we try to subdue and measure nature - though led astray through sex and murder. In \u003ci\u003eFunny Little Fellows\u003c\/i\u003e, we are spies and cleansers, the figures in an epic with a suspect leader. Our histories repeat themselves, and the shapeshifted waft the epic into myth. We are explorers, finding new frontiers, but never settlement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bright Stars\u003c\/i\u003e are the gang that founds a state and provide a founding myth. We are their accomplices, artists and managers in their theatrical world. Actors and actresses mingle with inventors, warriors and demigods. Where the first two fables give us a cosmology, The Bright Stars are epic and creative, giving sense and order to this new world, its search for rules, purpose, security and punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Red Tank\u003c\/b\u003e is the founding blood myth, a solution true to our nature, resolving uncertainties remaining from the previous fables. We recognise the red tank as it circles us and fires. Our aspirations, fears and ambitions, remain, their mysteries familiar and comforting. The species sees where it has come from and where it has now settled - the cosmos is filled again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Red Tank\u003c\/i\u003e once again displays the seriousness and sheer brilliance of Fraser's conceptual aims and the dazzling invention of his linguistic fantasy.' Rouben Kodesh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Fraser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1494892588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781494892586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Fraser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458881958143,"sku":"9781494892586","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c762bea-fbab-43c8-a39c-1c30825e6301.jpg?v=1777407178","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-red-tank-john-fraser-9781494892586","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}