{"product_id":"lord-jim-at-home-1","title":"Lord Jim at Home","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLord Jim at Home\u003c\/h1\u003eDinah Brooke,Dinah Brooke\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003eOctober 3 2023\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781946022646\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1946022640\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A ferocious comedy of middle-class dysfunction . . . published to controversy in 1973 . . . A masterpiece.\" --Claire Allfree, \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary . . . This novel [is] full of horrors but energetic, funny and tense as a spring . . . Lord Jim at Home, inspired by a real story but full of the kind of truth only fiction can deliver, plants its devilish brilliance deep in the reader and won't let go.\" --John Self, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Dinah pooke's second novel, \u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home, \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1973, it was described as \"squalid and startling,\" \"nastily horrific,\" and a \"monstrous parody\" of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day--like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic \u003ci\u003eLord Jim--\u003c\/i\u003ecommits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), \u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, pooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty \"in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390645501997,"sku":"WHS-2ec14fb095754296b2912f1f3f672dc4","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_93ca96dd-f16b-4ef1-9a9c-2fc7c74fbac2.jpg?v=1787345709","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/lord-jim-at-home-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}