{"product_id":"metroland-9780679736080","title":"Metroland","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is \"wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence\" (\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly the author of \u003ci\u003eFlaubert's Parrot\u003c\/i\u003e could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call \"growing up\" and others \"selling out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a collection of essays. He has won both the Prix M?dicis and the Prix F?mina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872746377490,"sku":"9780679736080","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2cc54d2a-4a96-45ed-a9d5-20e803c6314f.jpg?v=1737908136","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/metroland-9780679736080","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}