{"product_id":"sixty-four-chance-pieces-9789888273027","title":"Sixty-Four Chance Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes, is one of the oldest and strangest of all books, a masterpiece of world literature, a divination manual and a magnet for the deranged and the obsessive. In Sixty-Four Chance Pieces, novelist and philosopher Will Buckingham puts the I Ching to work, using it to weave together sixty-four stories of chance and change, each flowing from one of the I Ching's 64 hexagrams. Moving between myth, fable and travel-writing, Sixty-Four Chance Pieces offers an attempt to make sense of the maddening, changeable book that is the I Ching with tales of inventors and fox-spirits, ancient poets and non-existent rulers, kleptomaniac pensioners and infernal bureaucrats. Like the I Ching itself, this new Book of Changes is a puzzle, a conundrum and a journey of many transformations, where nothing is quite what it seems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill Buckingham\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, philosopher, and children's author whose published works include \u003ci\u003eCargo Fever\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Descent of the Lyre\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFinding Our Sea-Legs\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLevinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Snorgh and the Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing at De Montfort University in Leicester, England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Earnshaw Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50434295136530,"sku":"9789888273027","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_84a44c23-797e-4937-b4e6-a3cb46fcf08f.jpg?v=1729598078","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sixty-four-chance-pieces-9789888273027","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}