{"product_id":"rule-dementia-paperback","title":"Rule Dementia! - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in print after a long hiatus, Quentin S. Crisp's third collection of fiction, \u003cem\u003eRule Dementia!\u003c\/em\u003e, sees the author start to experiment with the form and content of the macabre tale. 'The Haunted Bicycle' is his first attempt to use Japanese I-novel techniques with supernatural subject matter and tales such as 'The Waiting' and 'Unimaginable Joys' are a fusion of cosmic vision and the fey, shoe-gazing miserablism of Generation X. Throughout, the collection forms a symbolic, whimsical bestiary of the modern soul as brimming with unexpected, irreducible and oddly specific imagery as a Hieronymus Bosch painting. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformed by a surreal, apocalyptic paranoia, yet rooted in child-like imagination and sheltered in the lee of unschooled mysticism, these early tales together make up a playful scrapbook of despair and hope at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51373881065695,"sku":"9781943813186","price":31.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/b4xSW06mFl9781943813186.webp?v=1789164523","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/rule-dementia-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}