{"product_id":"the-ice-shirt","title":"The Ice-Shirt","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Ice-Shirt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam T. Vollmann\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140131963\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1993\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e6th Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e432\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEurope Central\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call \"Vinland the Good.\" The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.\u003cp\u003eAs William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"The Ice-Shirt | William T. Vollmann | Paperback | 9780140131963 | New | Fiction 1704776","offer_id":50752110297346,"sku":"1704776","price":40.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81uRL7dd2mL.jpg?v=1792001232","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-ice-shirt","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}