{"product_id":"world-light","title":"World Light","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWorld Light\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHalldor Laxness\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375727573\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e624\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet's life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf's ambition drives him onward--and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women--\u003ci\u003eWorld Light\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"World Light | Halldor Laxness | Paperback | 9780375727573 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1710790","offer_id":48753954390168,"sku":"1710790","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/615LaZS37DL.jpg?v=1774070486","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/world-light","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}