{"product_id":"the-revenants","title":"The Revenants","description":"\u003cp\u003eO. Jamie Walsh, The Revenants, Paperback 228 pp.,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the settlement of Death, the corpse isn’t buried for some time as the body artist needs to mould it for the mourning display […] Rarely acknowledged is how closely a coffin maker must follow the work of the embalming artist. Once the presentable corpse is fixed, the body cannot be returned to the usual mind-me-tits pose of a regular burial (not that anyone in Death would desire anything so missionary), and so the coffin is never the traditional shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne recent funeral was remarkable. Eavan Dermoût in death eschewed the traditional horror motif and elected for a perfect foetal shape for her last journey. They’d to break her bones to get her in position, but in the end she rested upright like a wheel, naked and hairless. Behind her the coffin was almost circular, like a coracle with a pot lid—.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Revenants is a return to the “eerie mental eavesdropping” of The Settlements, and although not in any way a sequel, this endlessly inventive new book listens to the voices of the peninsula, following meandering tales according to a dream logic—\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broodcomb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58441458319704,"sku":"LIT120","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/0340\/7448\/files\/TheRevenants_1.jpg?v=1789068869","url":"https:\/\/iglootree.com\/products\/the-revenants","provider":"Iglootree","version":"1.0","type":"link"}