{"product_id":"fishing-for-amber-a-long-story-9781862073029","title":"Fishing for Amber: A Long Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It was long ago  and long ago it was; and if Id been there  I wouldnt be here now; if I were here  and then to be now  Id be an old storyteller  whose story might have been improved by time  could he remember it.\" So begins the latest work of the writer of whom Charles Simic has said: \"He is one of the best poets we have on both sides of the Atlantic and the publication of every one of his books is a major event in both our literatures.\" In the way it dazzles us with a weave of narratives  Fishing for Amber surpasses Carsons previous book  The Star Factory; in the sheer pleasure it takes in stories it is at least the equal of Last Nights Fun  his first prose work. In form it is a kind of magic alphabet  from A-Z  with the subjects drawn from chillingly comic Irish fairy tales; from Ovids Metamorphoses; and from the history of the Dutch Golden Age  the time of Vermeer the painter of light and Van Leeuwenhoek the inventor of microscopes. These three strands of fiction? fable? are united by the authors wonder at the preservation and enrichment of stories by time  and the transformation of vision by art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276843704373,"sku":"ByrdShop_1862073023","price":63.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781862073029.jpg?v=1780565330","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/fishing-for-amber-a-long-story-9781862073029","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}