{"product_id":"dramocles-an-intergalactic-soap-opera-robert-sheckley-1983-1st-holt-rinehart-winston-hardback","title":"Dramocles: An Intergalactic Soap Opera - Robert Sheckley - 1983 1st Holt, Rinehart \u0026 Winston Hardback","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:\u003cbr\u003e• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover\u003cbr\u003e• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name\/notes inside\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eCover art: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWendell Minor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlurb\u003c\/strong\u003e: “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Sheckley, a stellar name in the science fiction universe, is a writer whose sense of the bizarre overlaps with his sense of reality, resulting in a world of fantasy that falls just short of the incred-ible. In Dramocles, that world is a mix of twentieth-century soap opera, Greek trag-edy, and Shakespearian drama, pulled together in a marvelous comic-heroic display.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDramocles has always been a rather ordinary king on a rather ordinary planet, but he finds his life utterly changed one day when he is informed he has a destiny to fulfill-one that is revealed not all at once, but in tantalizing bits and pieces. As he fumbles and struggles to carry out his mission, Dram-ocles's world falls apart around him—he inadvertently starts an interplanetary war, his family distintegrates, his closest friends and advisors betray him, and his realm is besieged by a series of barbarian invasions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis misguided pursuit serves as a springboard for a series of plot reversals and impossibilities that unfold before the reader's— and the characters'-eyes. As each page brings a wilder turn to the story, we are reminded of Stanislaw Lem or Italo Calvino at their most absurd. With Dramocles, Robert Sheckley takes us on a magical tour de force with a comic mastery that is completely, and delightfully, his own.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Rinehart \u0026 Winston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49173045608690,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/7685\/4977\/files\/6F6A9932-D188-4B89-A5DA-E03817F3027E.jpg?v=1778395125","url":"https:\/\/postmarkedfromthestars.com\/products\/dramocles-an-intergalactic-soap-opera-robert-sheckley-1983-1st-holt-rinehart-winston-hardback","provider":"Postmarked from the Stars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}