{"product_id":"cugels-saga-9780671494506","title":"CUGEL'S SAGA.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Vance sees himself in the tradition of popular fantasy writers  but his classic writing style is also comparagle to Homers Odyssey  and Cervantes Don Quixote. Though the Cugel tales may lack the scope and pathos of the greatest adventure yarns  in the twenty-first century  they may be as close as one gets to the celebration of epic human perseverance.\"--editor  Brilliance Audio Cugels Saga  published 17 years after Eyes of the Overworld  is the second novel that features the scoundrel and trickster  Cugel. Again  Cugel tests wits with Iucounu and acquires rudimentary powers himself. Cugel the Clever is a rogue so venal and unscrupulous that that he makes Harry Flashman look like Dudley Do-Right. How could you not love a guy like that? .... Judging from the number of times that Cugel has come back ... you cant keep a bad man down. George R.R. Martin  author of A Song of Ice and Fire. Cugel the Clever is a liar and thief in a doomed world of liars and thieves.... Probably the least attractive hero it would be possible to find  struggling through a universe like a Hieronymus Bosch painting  a hero only in that nearly everybody else he encounters in that universe is on the make too  and yet the Cugel stories are howlingly funny. Kage Baker  author of Empress of Mars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647390015541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0671494503","price":39.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780671494506.jpg?v=1781692222","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cugels-saga-9780671494506","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}