{"product_id":"businessmen-as-lovers-9780811240246","title":"Businessmen as Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003eMimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture capitalist, an Iranian tycoon, and a villainous, slightly tragic local dentist. There is also Mimi's great love, Beetle, a quiet and unassuming English journalist. As everyone begins to relax and settle into the vacation, drinking and eating away the demands of everyday life, their impish plots culminate in an odd Mediterranean prank involving the poor dentist's lemon tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in print after many decades, \u003cem\u003eBusinessmen as Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinarily jubilant and delightful novel by the inimitable Rosemary Tonks: businessmen fall in love, too, but it is with each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTonks, Rosemary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRosemary Tonks\u003c\/strong\u003e (1928-2014) published two poetry collections and six novels, and wrote for \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEncounter\u003c\/em\u003e, and presented poetry programs for the BBC. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52128896811282,"sku":"9780811240246","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_78d3dfa4-70b3-4bbf-9023-e5e12ca46306.jpg?v=1773823326","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/businessmen-as-lovers-9780811240246","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}