{"product_id":"shadow-of-the-coachmans-body","title":"Shadow of the Coachman's Body","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eShadow of the Coachman's Body\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePeter Weiss\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811231619\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\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\u003ePeter Weiss's first prose work, \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow of the Coachman's Body\u003c\/em\u003e, was unanimously praised as an original and perfect work of art by critics when it appeared in 1960. Here, in poet Rosmarie Waldrop's stunning translation, Weiss arranges a dark, vividly alive comedy of inert objects in a dismal boarding house--stones, buttons, hooks, needles, chairs, newspapers in an outhouse, clinking tin cups, celestial orbs, sewing machines, an overwound windup music box--which have oblique characters' shadows as their supporting cast. Described by Weiss as a \"micro-novel,\" \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow of the Coachman's Body\u003c\/em\u003e can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate and offers endless possibilities--like a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Shadow of the Coachman's Body | Peter Weiss | Book | 9780811231619 | New | Fiction 1405608","offer_id":50561088225538,"sku":"1405608","price":33.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41HqttWQb2L.jpg?v=1790705211","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/shadow-of-the-coachmans-body","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}