{"id":15437,"date":"2022-10-01T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=15437"},"modified":"2022-10-01T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:00:48","slug":"featured-john-gardner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-john-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured: JOHN GARDNER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"first3words\">John Gardner was an American novelist, best known for his 1971 novel Grendel. <\/span>\nGrendel is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> <span class=\"first3words\"> SIGNED by JOHN GARDNER<\/span> on the front free end page. Hardbound in unclipped Dust Jacket. First Edition. Dust Jacket shows fading to its orange spine, otherwise in very good condition. Purple cloth boards show light spotting and some minor wear to their edges. \nInterior pages are clean with no writing or similar marks. Binding sound. RARE!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 74642 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/saver12324-203x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15439\" title=\"The Second Common Reader\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/saver12324-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/saver12324.png 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Grendel<\/strong><br><em>John<\/em> <em>Gardner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <span class=\"buyNow\">$950<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gardner was an American novelist, best known for his 1971 novel Grendel. Grendel is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-items"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15443,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions\/15443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}