{"product_id":"the-fool-and-other-moral-tales","title":"The Fool and Other Moral Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre―author of the celebrated Governesses―come three delicious, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas.  The Fool “may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being familiar with playing cards, still less with the tarot, I was a bit uncomfortable when I first set eyes on him. I believe in magic figures and distrust them…a figure observing you can turn the world upside down.”  The Narrator concerns a sort of writer-hero: “Outcasts who can’t even tell a story are what you might call dropouts, lunatics, misfits. With them the narrator is in his element, but has one huge advantage: he can tell a story.” Little Table, Set Yourself!―a moral tale concerning a family happily polyamorous―is the most overtly a fable of these three works, and the briefest, but thin as a razor is thin.  A dream logic rules each of these wildly unpredictable, sensual and surreal novellas: these may be romps, but nevertheless deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50119773782239,"sku":"9780811227162","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9780811227162.jpg?v=1781571775","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-fool-and-other-moral-tales","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}