{"product_id":"the-son-of-black-thursday-9781632060532","title":"The Son of Black Thursday","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Alejandro Jodorowsky--the legendary director of \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, spiritual guru behind \u003ci\u003ePsychomagic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bird Sings Best\u003c\/i\u003e--comes another autobiographical tour-de-force: a mythopoetic portrait of the artist as a young man in Chile in the tumultuous 1930s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bird Sings Best\u003c\/i\u003e, Alejandro Jodorowsky's visionary autobiographical novel that NPR compared to \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e and called \"a genius's surreal vision brought to life,\" we followed Jodorowsky's predecessors as they fled to Chile amid a fantastical array of circuses, Tarot, Catholic and Jewish mysticism, sexual extravagance, political violence, and the ghost of a wise rabbi serving as advisor. Now, in \u003ci\u003eThe Son of Black Thursday\u003c\/i\u003e, Jodorowsky himself takes the stage as we're introduced to the unforgettable cast of his early years in Chile in the 1930s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We follow his father, Jaime, who's obsessed with assassinating the dictator he ends up serving; his mother, Sarah, a giantess who never speaks but communicates through operatic singing; his grandparents, Ukrainian Jewish exiles fleeing persecution in the Ukraine; his twin sister, who is made to suckle a mannequin until she is ten in order to silence her delirious speeches; among other creatures of every description as they struggle against the misery and oppression of the copper mines of the Chilean desert. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As he's done across media from film to comics to mystic philosophy to fiction, Jodorowsky once again demonstrates his boundless capacity for creating a universe of wonder, horror, humor, magic, and cosmic truth beyond our wildest imaginings. \u003ci\u003eThe Son of Black Thursday\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping novel from one of our most treasured masters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Restless Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632060532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alejandro Jodorowsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36663404101788,"sku":"9781632060532","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_952802c9-d011-4205-afad-52654341e454.jpg?v=1603904224","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-son-of-black-thursday-9781632060532","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}