{"product_id":"the-guyana-quartet-9780571368075","title":"The Guyana Quartet","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis dreamlike masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e British Guiana. An ancient landscape of rainforests and swamplands; a colony haunted by the enduring legacies of slavery and murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A riverboat crew led charts a quest seeking indigenous peoples to exploit as plantation labour; but their journey becomes a spiritual voyage towards the Palace of the Peacock ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A genius money-lender, illegitimate child, and beggar become entangled in a strange drama that illuminates how slavery's descendants struggle to achieve true freedom ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A man accused of a murder he didn't commit is on the run in the jungle swamplands; but as his innocence is disputed, he stages his death, entering a hallucinatory otherworld ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A government surveyour captaining a boat crew encounters an elderly local man who accuses him of unfair dealings and threatens rebellion, building to a nightmarish climax ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reissued as a new omnibus with a foreword by Ishion Hutchinson to mark Sir Wilson Harris' centenary, \u003ci\u003eThe Guyana Quartet -\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Palace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin, The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder - \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzling, mythic, epic masterpiece, as revolutionary today as it was over half a century ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Guyanese William Blake ... [Such] poetic intensity. -- \u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarris, Wilson:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eSir Wilson Harris \u003c\/b\u003ewas a prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and lecturer. Born in 1921 in British Guiana, his father died when he was two and his stepfather disappeared into the rainforests in 1929. He began working as a government surveyor in 1942 and led expeditions into the Amazonian interior for almost 15 years. In 1959 he left for England to become a full-time writer. The following year, Faber published his debut novel, \u003ci\u003ePalace of the Peacock\u003c\/i\u003e, which became a landmark of Caribbean literature and the first of \u003ci\u003eThe Guyana Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e. Over the course of his career, Faber published all 26 of Harris' novels, including\u003ci\u003e The Carnival Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJonestown\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mask of the Beggar\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e. Harris was awarded numerous academic fellowships and honorary doctorates as well as being a Guggenheim Fellow. He twice won the Guyana Prize for Literature as well as a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Harris was knighted in 2010, and died in 2018 at the age of 96.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHutchinson, Ishion:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eIshion Hutchinson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eFar District\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHouse of Lords and Commons\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among other awards. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Cornell University.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647203479826,"sku":"9780571368075","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a433c335-31b1-460e-9d67-bb970d451554.jpg?v=1733198114","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-guyana-quartet-9780571368075","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}