{"product_id":"the-bark-tree","title":"The Bark Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eRaymond Queneau's Witch Grass, originally Le Chiendent, is a philosophical farce in which a man in a Paris café glimpses another man hurrying for a train and decides, on no evidence, to follow the thread of his existence. The result is a comic, digressive novel about the absurdity of narrative itself, full of characters who live on the sleazy, talkative outskirts of the city of lights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Directions' edition presents the book in a compact paperback format, appropriate for Queneau's odd, rigorously playful fiction. It is a good shelf companion to Zazie in the Metro or Exercises in Style, and a better fit for readers who think novels should misbehave a little, following a thread because it is there rather than because it leads anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48479539331284,"sku":"9780811201674","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/9780811201674.webp?v=1786814766","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/the-bark-tree","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}