{"product_id":"pinocchio-illustrated","title":"Pinocchio (Illustrated)","description":"Though one of the best-known books in the world, \u003ci\u003ePinocchio \u003c\/i\u003eat the same time remains unknown--linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that bears little relation to Carlo Collodi's splendid original. That story is of course about a puppet who, after many trials, succeeds in becoming a \"real boy.\" Yet it is hardly a sentimental or morally improving tale. To the contrary, Pinocchio is one of the great subversives of the written page, a madcap genius hurtled along at the pleasure and mercy of his desires, a renegade who in many ways resembles his near contemporary Huck Finn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003ePinocchio \u003c\/i\u003ethe novel, no less than Pinocchio the character, is one of the great inventions of modern literature. A sublime anomaly, the book merges the traditions of the picaresque, of street theater, and of folk and fairy tales into a work that is at once adventure, satire, and a powerful enchantment that anticipates surrealism and magical realism. Thronged with memorable characters and composed with the fluid but inevitable logic of a dream, \u003ci\u003ePinocchio \u003c\/i\u003eis an endlessly fascinating work that is essential equipment for life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Geoffrey Brock's acclaimed new translation is reissued in an edition for children with over fifty full-page watercolors by Fulvio Testa.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50868819689704,"sku":"9781590175880","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_8aa3e35e-8e35-445b-b016-4dfdcb33329c.jpg?v=1790359152","url":"https:\/\/kuumba-47muwsn1.myshopify.com\/products\/pinocchio-illustrated","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}