{"product_id":"an-artist-of-the-floating-world-1","title":"An Artist of the Floating World","description":"From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day\n\nIn the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.\n\nNow, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the \"floating world\"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0679722661\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 31URM8002Y7T_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ishiguro, Kazuo\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43335267450941,"sku":"31URM8002Y7T_ns","price":5.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0679722661-0_96798936-c68b-40ad-bd65-96ff86fa7c3f.jpg?v=1783721099","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/an-artist-of-the-floating-world-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}