{"product_id":"pym-pb","title":"PYM PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Houston Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e• The Seattle Times • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSalon • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNational Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe A.V. Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRecently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Determined to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes, Jaynes convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pym’s trail to the South Pole, armed with little but the firsthand account from which Poe derived his seafaring tale, a bag of bones, and a stash of Little Debbie snack cakes. Thus begins an epic journey by an unlikely band of adventurers under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the surface of American history, and behind one of literature’s great mysteries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Outrageously entertaining, [\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePym\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e] brilliantly re-imagines and extends Edgar Allan Poe’s enigmatic and unsettling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNarrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e. . . . Part social satire, part meditation on race in America, part metafiction and, just as important, a rollicking fantasy adventure . . . reminiscent of Philip Roth in its seemingly effortless blend of the serious, comic and fantastic.”—Michael Dirda, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52165054333159,"sku":null,"price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/41CwM1hAu9L.webp?v=1780619925","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/pym-pb","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}