{"product_id":"trouble-in-the-swaths-paperback","title":"Trouble in the Swaths - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBoris Vian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTerry Bradford\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published posthumously in 1966, \u003ci\u003eTrouble in the Swaths\u003c\/i\u003e was written by Boris Vian for a small audience of family and friends during the Nazi Occupation of Paris. It is a flippant, at times outrageous parody of genre fiction laced through with bursts of Sadean violence, absurdist slapstick and excessive wordplay in which the author makes his fictionalized debut under such anagrammed monikers as the Baron Visi and the detective Brisavion. Despite preceding Ian Fleming's novels by several years, \u003ci\u003eTrouble in the Swaths\u003c\/i\u003e nonetheless anticipates and ridicules such spy thrillers and their sexism, casual murders, plot twists and technological gadgetry. The adventure involves grenades and machine guns, planes and parachutes, trapdoors and underground caverns, a secret manuscript that endeavors to absorb the novel and, at the center of it all, the core of the narrative maelstrom: the \"forked barbarin.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoris Vian\u003c\/b\u003e (1920-59) was a French polymath best known for his novels: both the crime novels he published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan and the surrealistic writing he published under his own name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 7.95 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764174651680,"sku":"9781939663962","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/937bdb0b72588b36fbb9596d2168cb94.webp?v=1780244794","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/trouble-in-the-swaths-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}