{"product_id":"2193467","title":"The Fool-Spy","description":"117 pp. \"'The Fool Spy' tells of a romance with history in with lover, B. O. Wolfe (Beowulf) is buried, and his apparent heroism converted into mockery, by the very means which serve to perpetuate heroism: hearsay and legend. The situation of John Kuehl's brilliant first novel is by no means new, but Kuehl--with rigorous extravagance and an intricate vocabulary of irony--sees the situation through to its vortex of uncertainty; rigging literary and ideological conventions against themselves and each other, using a mirror-gallery of narrative, second and third and fourth-hand accounts, tall stories; envisioning history, not as a synthesized whole, but as a crepuscular haze, which--thanks to Kuehl's precisely formal yet dexterous command of dialogue--takes place in an eternal present, with the future a void and the past a phantasmagoria. His irony, then, performs the one endlessly worthwhile function of irony: it urges unswallowable truth upon us, with a candor so straight and so intricate, that it can only be accepted as humor and paradox.\"","brand":"For Now Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12595392217158,"sku":"2193467","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2193467.jpg?v=1571422289","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/2193467","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}