{"product_id":"blow-up-and-other-stories-9780394728810","title":"Blow-Up: And Other Stories","description":"A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's intended victim . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in hardcover as \u003ci\u003eEnd of the Game and Other Stories, \u003c\/i\u003ethe fifteen stories collected here--including \"Blow-Up,\" which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name--shows Julio Cort zar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJULIO CORTÁZAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Brussels to Argentinian parents in 1914, was raised in Argentina, and in 1952 moved to Paris, where he continued to live for the rest of his life. He was a poet, translator, an amateur jazz musician as well as the author of several novels and volumes of short stories. Ten of his books have been published in English: \u003ci\u003eThe Winners, Hopscotch \u003c\/i\u003e(which won the National Book Award)\u003ci\u003e, Blow-Up and Other Stories, Cronopios and Famas, 62: A Model Kit, A Change of Light, We Love Glenda So Much, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Certain Lucas.\u003c\/i\u003e He received the Prix Médicis Award (France, 1974) and the Rubén Darío Order of Cultural Independence (Nicaragua, 1983), \u003ci\u003e among other accolades. \u003c\/i\u003eConsidered one of the great modern Latin American authors, he died in Paris in February 1984.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612918059282,"sku":"9780394728810","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c26de24-f553-4536-86da-879fa8ebb948.jpg?v=1732380948","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blow-up-and-other-stories-9780394728810","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}