{"product_id":"9781846689611","title":"1913: The Year Before the Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003eA witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Florian Illies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45135984656544,"sku":"9781846689611","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/9781846689611.jpg?v=1771692766","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781846689611","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}