{"subtitle": "an epic", "lc_classifications": ["PT7511.L3 S52313 1997"], "contributions": ["Thompson, J. A."], "id": 1522456, "edition_name": "1st Vintage International ed.", "title": "Independent people", "languages": [{"key": "/l/eng"}], "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Halldo\u0301r Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson ; introduction by Brad Leithauser.", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "revision": 9, "publishers": ["Vintage International"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "<p>Independent People, by Nobel-winner <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness\">Halldor Laxness</a>, is the story of Icelandic farmer Bjartur, his sheep, rocks, and the universe.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><h3>Reviews</h3> \r\n<ul><li><a href=\"http://dannyreviews.com/h/Independent_People.html\">Danny Yee's Book Reviews.</a></li></ul></p>"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-10-27T23:34:39.254155"}, "key": "/b/OL986926M", "authors": [{"key": "/a/OL62102A"}], "publish_places": ["New York"], "pagination": "xxiv, 482 p. ;", "dewey_decimal_class": ["839/.6934"], "number_of_pages": 482, "lccn": ["96025026"], "isbn_10": ["0679767924"], "publish_date": "1997", "work_title": ["Sja\u0301lfst\u00e6tt folk."]}