{"title":"Ulysses","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cork","title":"Cork","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"My name is Lily Campendonc. A long time ago I used to live in Lisbon. . . .\" So begins Cork, in which a pragmatic young British widow, proprietor of a cork-processing factory, embarks on an affair with her husband's former office manager, Her lover will meet only once a year, and insists that their encounters be pseudonymous masquerades. For him, this role playing is essential: ''You see, because I am nothing, I can imagine anything. . . . If I were something, I would be unable to imagine.'' Punctuating the story are excerpts from a monograph on the peculiar traits of cork trees. injecting a seemingly dry scientific treatise into a tale of passion. As it turns out, the rare characters of cork''lightness, impermeability, elasticity''and the unusual nature of the love affair have much in common.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263940641062,"sku":"cork","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/6270b640-d5ae-411d-8e3b-ef04f0a22f47.jpg?v=1701088926"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/ulysses.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}