{"product_id":"boxing-greats-book-steve-bunce-9780762404025","title":"Boxing Greats","description":"\u003ci\u003eManual of Painting and Calligraphy\u003c\/i\u003e was Jose Saramago s first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eBaltasar and Blimunda\u003c\/i\u003e, it is a story of self-discovery set against the background of the last years of Salazar s dictatorship. A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in the process about himself and the world around him. The brilliant juxtaposition of a passionate love story and the crisis of a nation foreshadows all of Saramago s major works. A must-have for any devotee of the great Portuguese Nobel laureate, \u003ci\u003eManual of Painting and Calligraphy\u003c\/i\u003e is available in the United States for the first time. \u003cbr\u003eJose Saramago (1922 2010) was the author of many novels, among them \u003ci\u003eBlindness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll the Names\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBaltasar and Blimunda\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. \u003cbr\u003eGiovanni Pontiero translated all of Saramago s novels until his death in 1997, just after finishing his translation of Blindness. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521056383249,"sku":"GOR005502285","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49724343943441,"sku":"CIN0762404027A","price":6.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423569346833,"sku":"CIN0762404027VG","price":9.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0762404027.jpg?v=1750881837","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/boxing-greats-book-steve-bunce-9780762404025","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}