| Sixty-Four Chance Pieces Contributor(s): Buckingham, Will (Author) |
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ISBN: 9888273027 ISBN-13: 9789888273027 Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
| Dewey: 133.33 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.1" (0.95 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest and strangest of all books, a masterpiece of world literature, a divination manual, and a magnet for the deranged and the obsessive. In Sixty-Four Chance Pieces, novelist and philosopher Will Buckingham puts the I Ching to work, using it to weave together 64 stories of chance and change, each flowing from one of the I Ching's 64 hexagrams. Moving between myth, fable, and travel writing, the collection offers an attempt to make sense of the maddening, changeable book that is the I Ching, with tales of inventors and fox-spirits, ancient poets and nonexistent rulers, kleptomaniac pensioners and infernal bureaucrats. Like the I Ching itself, this new Book of Changes is a puzzle, a conundrum, and a journey of many transformations, where nothing is quite what it seems. |