{"product_id":"the-guyana-quartet-paperback","title":"The Guyana Quartet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilson Harris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIshion Hutchinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698907189311,"sku":"9780571368075","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/57332b0474e9fb9e6d5a10d82fe34eef.webp?v=1765011756","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-guyana-quartet-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}