{"product_id":"blood-on-the-dining-room-floor","title":"Blood On The Dining Room Floor","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat happened, nobody saw, but everybody knew… Why should blood on the floor make anyone mad against automobiles and telephones and desks. Why. This is what happened.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003eWritten in 1933, immediately following the publication of the wildly successful \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlood on the Dining-Room Floor\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Stein’s most avant-garde pieces of writing, taking the murder mystery genre and working it masterfully into a Modernist mould.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003eBased in part on truth, the narrative is set in – and written from – the country house where Stein and Toklas were living in rural France, and describes the strange death of their acquaintance Madame Pernollet. The novella takes the mystery and warps it, shot through as it is with the comings and goings of servants and the unstoppable march of modern life. Reissued as part of Renard’s accessible series of Stein’s work, this is the perfect edition for lovers of the Modernist icon’s work, and a new generation that is just as fascinated by crime and detection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395956187518,"sku":"NW9781804471708","price":8.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781804471708.jpg?v=1778619952","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/blood-on-the-dining-room-floor","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}