{"product_id":"athena-isbn-9780679736851","title":"Athena","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as \u003ci\u003eLolita. • \u003c\/i\u003e\"A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A thriller ... by Ireland's master of the exquisite and uncanny, whose brilliant use of prose narration places him in a league with Joyce and Beckett.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style.\" \u003ci\u003e—The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He has been the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1976), the Guardian Fiction Prize (1981), the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award (1989), and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1997). He has been both shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1989) and awarded the Man Booker Prize (2005) as well as nominated for the Man Booker International Prize (2007). Other awards include the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2013), and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014). He lives in Dublin.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301192650981,"sku":"NP9780679736851","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679736851.jpg?v=1767721917","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/athena-isbn-9780679736851","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}