{"product_id":"9781400077557","title":"Gargoyles","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated  and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary  prizes in Germany. \u003ci\u003eGargoyles, \u003c\/i\u003eone of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal  study of the nature of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne morning a doctor and his son set out on daily  rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful  characters they encounter—from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a  crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage—coping with physical misery, madness,  and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates  in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing  cascade of words that is classic Bernhard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Bernhard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47432654192852,"sku":"9781400077557","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8bda37fb-aab4-4ee9-be26-936961d9bd8a.jpg?v=1767995508","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781400077557","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}