{"product_id":"defeated-dogs-paperback-9781908125200","title":"Defeated Dogs (Paperback)","description":"This book is the fifth original fiction collection from one of the true eccentrics of modern British writing - stories that blend erudite skill and a startling emotional intensity, classical elegance and unexpected experimentation, sophisticated miserablism and innocent beauty. A fairy tale as dark as they come amid a shattering clash of two opposing and poisoned personalities. A Meyrink-tinged dream of atavism and Italy that awakens the dreamer to philosophy and fate. A quiet and perfectly observed journey through the far reaches of Japan. Myth-working fantasy haunted by the motley ghosts of Lord Dunsany and Matsuo Bash , and by the imps of postmodernism. A vision of the afterlife where heaven and hell are entwined in torturous symbiosis. The sinister Black Dog folklore re-imagined as a cosmology of thanatophobia. For all the diversity of styles in evidence, they are united by the author's distinctive voice - a window into a crepuscular human world torn between magic and reality, earth and infinity.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eibonvale Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874012598546,"sku":"9781908125200","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab19f310-1e45-4c3e-96f7-17373768bb66.jpg?v=1737980133","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/defeated-dogs-paperback-9781908125200","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}