{"product_id":"the-rings-of-saturn-9780811213783","title":"The Rings of Saturn","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: \"Stunning and strange . . . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . . . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . . . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the human spirit.\"Roberta Silman  The New York Times Book Review The Rings of Saturn  with its curious archive of photographs  records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things that cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics. Rembrandts \"Anatomy Lesson\"  the natural history of the herring  Borges  a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem  Sir Thomas Brownes skull  recession-hit seaside towns  Joseph Conrad  the once-thriving silk industry of Norwich  Swinburne  the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi  and the massive bombings of WWII. Mesmerized by the mutability of all things  the narrator catalogs the transmigration of whole worlds: \"On every new thing  there lies already the shadow of annihilation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960481144885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0811213781","price":42.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780811213783.jpg?v=1788288531","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-rings-of-saturn-9780811213783","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}