{"product_id":"unsteady-states-volume-one-john-fraser-9781914938115","title":"Unsteady States, Volume One","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of John Fraser's selected short stories and novellas features: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe White Room (from \u003ci\u003eAnimal Tales\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheep (from \u003ci\u003eHappy Always\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Scorpions (from \u003ci\u003eEnterprising Women\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLenin in the Cinema (from \u003ci\u003eBlack Masks\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the Philosophers Go (from \u003ci\u003eShort Lives\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting Over (from \u003ci\u003eBlue Light\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroken Chords (from \u003ci\u003eThree Beauties\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Fraser lives near Rome. Previously, he worked in England and Canada. Of Fraser's fiction the Whitbread Award winning poet John Fuller has written: 'One of the most extraordinary publishing events of the past few years has been the rapid, indeed insistent, appearance of the novels of John Fraser. There are few parallels in literary history to this almost simultaneous and largely belated appearance of a mature oeuvre, sprung like Athena from Zeus's forehead; and the novels in themselves are extraordinary. I can think of nothing much like them in fiction. Fraser maintains a masterfully ironic distance from the extreme conditions in which his characters find themselves. There are strikingly beautiful descriptions, veiled allusions to rooted traditions, unlikely events half-glimpsed, abrupted narratives, surreal but somehow apposite social customs.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Fraser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1914938119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781914938115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aesop Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d","brand":"John Fraser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48873953984767,"sku":"9781914938115","price":13.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unsteady-states-volume-one-john-fraser-9781914938115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}