{"product_id":"titus-awakes-a-novel","title":"Titus Awakes: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMervyn Peakes Gormenghast trilogy is widely acknowledged to be  as Robertson Davies pronounced  a classic of our age. In these extraordinary novels  Peake created a world where all is like a dream--lush  fantastical  and vivid. Yet it was incomplete. Parkinsons disease took Peakes life in 1968  depriving his fans of the fourth and final volume of the series  Titus Awakes except for a few tantalizing pages  after which his writing became indecipherable. Or so it seemed.  In January of 2010  Peakes granddaughter found four composition books in her attic. They contained the fabled Titus Awakes in its entirety. Peake had outlined the novel for his wife  Maeve Gilmore  who had at last finished Peakes masterpiece.  It starts with Titus leaving Castle Gormenghast. Peake wrote: With every pace he drew away from Gormenghast mountain  and from everything that belonged to his home. That night  as Titus lay asleep in the tall barn  a nightmare held him.   Fans of Peake will delight in this new  wonderful novel  published one hundred years after his birth  every bit as thrilling and masterfully written as his famed trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949411954741,"sku":"ByrdShop_159020428X","price":315.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781590204283_c3186d71-0b42-4fc3-9d4a-c2e704db58fd.jpg?v=1770583359","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/titus-awakes-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}