{"product_id":"across-the-acheron","title":"Across the Acheron","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her darkly funny 1985 take on Dante’s \u003cem\u003eDivine\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eComedy\u003c\/em\u003e, Monique Wittig restages the journey through the circles of hell, limbo, and paradise from a lesbian feminist perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNever-before published in the US,\u003cem\u003e Across the Acheron\u003c\/em\u003e follows the adventures of “Wittig” and her anti-Virgilian guide through laundromats, billiard parlors, dyke bars, and picnic grounds of a 1980s San Francisco populated by hunters and their prey, lost souls, and fantastical beasts, including a robotic eagle and angelic bikers. Wittig reimagines Dante’s epic poem through a feminist and queer lens, subverting his cosmological order and upending gender identities and literary traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition brings the English translation of Wittig’s final novel back into print for the first time since the early-1990s, revised according to the author’s notes, and with a new introduction by Sophie Lewis. [publishers' note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winter Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358265188692,"sku":"A8B-36536","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/acrosstheacheron.jpg?v=1790814598","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/across-the-acheron","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}