{"product_id":"umbrella-9780802122025","title":"Umbrella","description":"\"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella.\"--James Joyce, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1918\u003cbr\u003eAudrey Death--feminist, socialist and munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal--falls ill with encephalitis lethargica as the epidemic rages across Europe, killing a third of its victims and condemning a further third to living death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1971\u003cbr\u003eUnder the curious eyes of psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner, assumed mental patient Audrey Death lies supine in bed above a spring grotto that she has made every one of the forty-nine years she has resided in Friern Mental Hospital. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e2010\u003cbr\u003eNow retired, Dr. Busner travels waywardly across North London in search of the truth about that tumultuous summer when he awoke the post-encephalitic patients under his care using a new and powerful drug. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving together a dense tapestry of consciousness and lived life across an entire century, in his latest and most ambitious novel, Will Self takes up the challenge of Modernism and reveals how it--and it alone--can unravel new and unsettling truths about our world and how it came to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802122025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2013 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Will Self","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643383672988,"sku":"9780802122025","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_326ed994-261b-452c-aae5-ea8b30f305d4.jpg?v=1603856521","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/umbrella-9780802122025","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}