{"product_id":"black-venus","title":"Black Venus","description":"\u003cp\u003eExtraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his friends were when they said 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eAnd some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the seventeenth century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the Indians, who have nothing worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by wolves, strange and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate returning to humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n                    \u003cp\u003eAngela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973001023654,"sku":"9780099480716","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780099480716_1_a74493ff-f725-4e38-b712-afc3c89fb9c7.jpg?v=1656045927","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/black-venus","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}