{"product_id":"ka-dar-oakley-in-the-ruin-of-ymr-9781481495608","title":"Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eKa\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful, often dreamlike late masterpiece.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of our country's absolutely finest novelists.\" --Peter Straub, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eInterior Darkness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGhost Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom award-winning author John Crowley comes an exquisite fantasy novel about a man who tells the story of a crow named Dar Oakley and his impossible lives and deaths in the land of Ka. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Crow alone is no Crow.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDar Oakley--the first Crow in all of history with a name of his own--was born two thousand years ago. When a man learns his language, Dar finally gets the chance to tell his story. He begins his tale as a young man, and how he went down to the human underworld and got hold of the immortality meant for humans, long before Julius Caesar came into the Celtic lands; how he sailed West to America with the Irish monks searching for the Paradise of the Saints; and how he continuously went down into the land of the dead and returned. Through his adventures in Ka, the realm of Crows, and around the world, he found secrets that could change the humans' entire way of life--and now may be the time to finally reveal them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrowley, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Crowley was born in the appropriately liminal town of Presque Isle, Maine in 1942, his father then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movie and found work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He published his first novel \u003ci\u003eThe Deep\u003c\/i\u003e in 1975, and his fifteenth volume of fiction, \u003ci\u003eFour Freedoms\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2009. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 2006 he was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He finds it more gratifying that almost all his work is still in print.","brand":"S\u0026s\/Saga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625590755602,"sku":"9781481495608","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6f91987-7ab6-4feb-bbad-b5da999a91bb.jpg?v=1732632753","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ka-dar-oakley-in-the-ruin-of-ymr-9781481495608","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}