{"product_id":"the-guyana-quartet-9780571368075","title":"The Guyana Quartet","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571368075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.40d","brand":"Wilson Harris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41521435410613,"sku":"9780571368075","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b59be1fa-9bd0-4999-b8f6-18263ffc8a1e.jpg?v=1641918611","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-guyana-quartet-9780571368075","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}