{"product_id":"the-chymical-wedding-9780804107020","title":"The Chymical Wedding","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is the early 1980s. Alex Darken  devastated by a broken marriage  has retreated to a remote village in the bleak flatlands of eastern England. On the Easterness Estate he meets the volatile  aging poet Edward Nesbit and his vibrant  psychic  young American lover  Laura. Slowly  he is drawn into a strange relationship with them as they piece together the lost studies of two of the present lords ancestors. In 1849  Sir Henry Agnew and his elegant  brilliant daughter Louisa  were about to penetrate the last secrets of the mystical art of alchemy. They  like the researches a century and a half later  see in the \"chemical wedding\" of opposites -- sulphur and quicksilver  spirit and matter  male and female  reality and imagination -- a key to spiritual rebirth. As Edward  Laura  and Alex mirror the Agnew story  dreams and symbols  erotic ecstasy and philosophical argument  climax in a vision which  like those before them  they can grasp only as they skirt insanity and tragedy . . . . \"Engrossing . . . By the time we start wanting to resist  it is too late. The book already has drawn us too deeply into its six intriguing main characters and its rich gothic folds of plot.\" -- Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647249440821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0804107025","price":94.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780804107020.jpg?v=1781690708","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-chymical-wedding-9780804107020","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}