{"product_id":"the-iceshirt-9780140131963","title":"The IceShirt","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEurope Central\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call Vinland the Good. The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.\u003cp\u003eAs William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195146957143,"sku":"9780140131963","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-iceshirt-9780140131963","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}