{"product_id":"jean-9781324105640","title":"Jean","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeventeen-year-old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with \"problems.\" Dyslexic, antisocial, and prone to violent outbursts, Jean has never made friends easily and school has never been a place of safety or enjoyment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompton Manor is his last chance, but even here, despite the unconventional teaching methods, Jean is marked by difference. The other boys are fee-paying, while Jean is on a grant; they have good, English families, while Jean's mother, Rosa, is a German-Jewish refugee and his father is an absent memory. Having broken the rules several times, Jean is on thin ice. But there is only one summer to get through and then Jean will pass his exams and get out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll of a sudden, he is befriended by Tom--confident, charming, buoyed by years of good breeding and privilege--and it seems as if Jean's world might change. When things turn romantic, Jean is tipped into a heady, overwhelming infatuation. Now Jean skips class to venture into the woods, or sneaks across moonlit fields to see Tom, wondering whether the relationship might offer a way out of a life marked by alienation. But what if the only true path to freedom is to disappear altogether\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpellbinding and evocative, \u003cem\u003eJean\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heartrending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDunnigan, Madeleine:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMadeleine Dunnigan\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Jill Davis Fellow in the MFA program at New York University. While there she was awarded a Global Reporting Initiative Fellowship in Paris. She lives in London, where she was born and raised.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864354095378,"sku":"9781324105640","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24f9dbb3-10bb-4fad-a977-f19922886192.jpg?v=1767786726","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jean-9781324105640","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}