{"product_id":"robinson-paperback","title":"Robinson - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMuriel Spark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanuary Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. Robinson, a determined loner, proves a fair if misanthropic host to his uninvited guests; he encourages January to keep a journal: as an occupation for my mind, and I fancied that I might later dress it up for a novel. That was most peculiar, as things transpired, for I did not then anticipate how the journal would turn upon me, so that having survived the plane disaster, I should nearly meet my death through it. In \u003cem\u003eRobinson, \u003c\/em\u003e Muriel Spark's wonderful second novel, under the tropical glare and strange fogs of the tiny island, we find a volcano, a ping-pong playing cat, a dealer in occult as well as lucky charms, flying ants, sexual tension, a disappearance, blackmail, andperhapsmurder. Everything astounds, confounds, and convinces, frighteningly. She is, as Charles Alva Hoyt once put it, the Jane Austen of the Surrealists. Robinson, a unique and marvelous novel, is another display of the powers of the most gifted and innovative British novelist (\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e). In the work of Dame Murielin the last words of Robinson immediately all things are possible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.14 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689583808575,"sku":"9780811215183","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6bdd17460aeca49ea9ab3059562a4d85.webp?v=1764985993","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/robinson-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}