{"product_id":"city-of-saints-and-madmen","title":"City of Saints and Madmen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Jeff VanderMeer, the author of \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic \u003ci\u003eCity of Saints and Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you've ever visited--an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCity of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading--and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he's made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and \"eyewitness\" reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose--and find--yourself again.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943356367079,"sku":"9780374538606","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_17d0fcf0-cd62-461c-baf4-a8b6b8af8168.jpg?v=1775320455","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/city-of-saints-and-madmen","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}