{"product_id":"guyana-quartet","title":"Guyana Quartet","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGuyana Quartet\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilson Harris\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780571368075\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis dreamlike masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e British Guiana. An ancient landscape of rainforests and swamplands; a colony haunted by the enduring legacies of slavery and murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A riverboat crew led charts a quest seeking indigenous peoples to exploit as plantation labour; but their journey becomes a spiritual voyage towards the Palace of the Peacock ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A genius money-lender, illegitimate child, and beggar become entangled in a strange drama that illuminates how slavery's descendants struggle to achieve true freedom ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A man accused of a murder he didn't commit is on the run in the jungle swamplands; but as his innocence is disputed, he stages his death, entering a hallucinatory otherworld ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A government surveyour captaining a boat crew encounters an elderly local man who accuses him of unfair dealings and threatens rebellion, building to a nightmarish climax ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reissued as a new omnibus with a foreword by Ishion Hutchinson to mark Sir Wilson Harris' centenary, \u003ci\u003eThe Guyana Quartet -\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Palace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin, The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder - \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzling, mythic, epic masterpiece, as revolutionary today as it was over half a century ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Guyanese William Blake ... [Such] poetic intensity. -- \u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Guyana Quartet | Wilson Harris | Quality | 9780571368075 | New | Fiction 1373406","offer_id":50558292558082,"sku":"1373406","price":33.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51GpDtjYi8L.jpg?v=1790654871","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/guyana-quartet","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}