{"product_id":"troy-unincorporated-francesca-abbate-9780226001203","title":"Troy, Unincorporated","description":"A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in \u003ci\u003eTroy, Unincorporated\u003c\/i\u003e offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer's tragedy \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e. The tale's unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted \"historic\" downtowns of south-central Wisconsin, including the real, and literally unincorporated, town of Troy. Allusive and often humorous, they retain an affinity with Chaucer, especially in terms of their roles: Troilus, the good courtly lover, suffers from the weeps, or, in more modern terms, depression. Pandarus, the hard-working catalyst who brings the lovers together in Chaucer's poem, is here a car mechanic. Chaucer's narrator tells a story he didn't author, claiming no power to change the course of events, and the narrator and characters in \u003ci\u003eTroy, Unincorporated\u003c\/i\u003e struggle against a similar predicament. Aware of themselves as literary constructs, they are paradoxically driven by the desire to be autonomous creatures-tale tellers rather than tales told. Thus, though \u003ci\u003eTroy, Unincorporated\u003c\/i\u003e follows Chaucer's plot-Criseyde falls in love with Diomedes after leaving Troy to live with her father, who has broken his hip, and Troilus dies of a drug overdose-it moves beyond Troilus's death to posit a possible fate for Criseyde on this \"litel spot of erthe.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesca Abbate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226001202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226001203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2012 pg. 82","brand":"Francesca Abbate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119451697407,"sku":"9780226001203","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e180081-20c5-4f45-bca3-2b28eef3d688.jpg?v=1687409428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/troy-unincorporated-francesca-abbate-9780226001203","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}