{"product_id":"the-rainbow-cantos-paperback","title":"The Rainbow Cantos - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eG. R. Tomaini\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rainbow Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of two works queering western canon, featuring \u003cem\u003eKiss Me, Ahab \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGayowulf. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKiss Me, Ahab: \u003c\/em\u003eThere's mischief afoot at Sargasso State College. Alcibiades loves Ahab, but Ahab is--\u003cem\u003egasp!\u003c\/em\u003e--straight!? What's to be done but turn to Oberon, King of the Fairies, for aid? Featuring a man-eating Lolita, lecherous professors, vampires beneath the campus, and over 400 footnotes that flip the canon on its head, this is a queer-coming of cage novella-in-verse that shakes the ivory gates of old-school academia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGayowulf: \u003c\/em\u003eA queer re-imagining of one of the oldest bits of the Western canon, the epic of Gayowulf unfolds with his prophesized birth and follows our intrepid hero through his fated confrontation with a devastatingly beautiful Grendel, then worse, his \u003cem\u003eMommy\u003c\/em\u003e, all the way to the outskirts of Tokyo, where he faces off against a coke-snorting Kimono Dragon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Rainbow Cantos: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"G.R. Tomaini's \u003cem\u003eThe Rainbow Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e is a wild and exuberant romp through the annals of literature from the distant to the recent past, where characters and stories from classics are brought out of the shadows of history and queered in the light of this new sun.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Christopher Barzak, author of the Stonewall Honor winning novel, \u003cem\u003eWonders of the Invisible World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734766948415,"sku":"9798218024307","price":23.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/660e8c3dbb215d7f9d897b1e86130e78.webp?v=1765141030","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-rainbow-cantos-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}