{"product_id":"narcisse-on-a-tightrope","title":"Narcisse on a Tightrope","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor seventeen years, Narcisse Dièze, chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called\n\"cerebral rheumatism\"; has lived in the protective confines of a psychiatric hospital.\u003c\/b\u003e There\nhe has been attended by a contingent of nurses, for whom he has obligingly fathered somewhere\nbetween thirty-five and one hundred seventy-one children. (No one knows the exact number.)\nBut the doctors abruptly decide that he is cured and prod him to reenter the outside world.\nNarcisse is floored, yet he gradually summons the will to try. What follows is an account of this\nnaïve and timid patient’s adventures in the realm of the so-called sane. An endearing misfit in the\ntradition of Walter Mitty and Forrest Gump, Narcisse is destined to totter precariously on the\nhighwire of his existence. Will we see him fall?\n\u003cbr\u003eA quirky fable that pokes holes in the accepted mental health verities and pleads for a touch of\nmadness. With an introduction by Warren Motte.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54011585954136,"sku":null,"price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781628973242.jpg?v=1779941749","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/narcisse-on-a-tightrope","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}