{"product_id":"the-opportune-moment-1855-9781564785961","title":"The Opportune Moment, 1855","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe nineteenth-century founding of \"free settlements\" in the Americas serves as a starting point for the new novel by popular Czech author Patrik Ouredn?k. Simultaneously satiric and philosophical, \"The Opportune Moment, 1855,\" opens with an Italian anarchist's missive to his noble former mistress, an impassioned rejection of all of Europe's latest and greatest advancements, from the Enlightenment to social reform to communist revolution. We then leap back in time half a century to the alternately somber and hilarious shipboard diary of a common Italian everyman sailing to Brazil with a motley, multinational band of idealists, to build a new society. A pitiless portrait of the often unbridgeable gap between theory and practice, \"The Opportune Moment, 1855\" is another uproarious and unsettling attack on convention by one of literature's great provocateurs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564785961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrik Ou?ednik, Patrik Ou'rednik, Patrik Ou Edn K.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41187072245941,"sku":"9781564785961","price":11.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_36aac728-d68b-47b2-ad92-bbbfbffde4c2.jpg?v=1633435776","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-opportune-moment-1855-9781564785961","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}