{"product_id":"dante-and-the-lobster-faber-stories","title":"Dante and the Lobster: Faber Stories","description":"Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all.\n\nIt is not.\n\n'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks. Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of his mentor, James Joyce, and crammed with linguistic texture and allusion that Beckett later shed. The book baffled many critics and sold so few copies that several batches were pulped.\n\nDecades later, this story was hailed as the Nobel Prize-winner's earliest important work.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39667913719893,"sku":"9780571351800N","price":2.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/badaefe1-0c9c-4130-9b09-9f0136ea0d8c.jpg?v=1644265481","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/dante-and-the-lobster-faber-stories","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}