{"product_id":"the-gatekeeper-a-memoir-9780312316136","title":"The Gatekeeper: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eOften scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, \u003ci\u003eThe Gatekeeper\u003c\/i\u003e is Terry Eagleton's memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. \u003ci\u003eThe Gatekeeper\u003c\/i\u003e mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Theory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Truth About the Irish\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written a novel, several plays, and the screenplay for Derek Jarman's film \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford, and Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410197025042,"sku":"9780312316136","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_91922a5b-f3df-48de-86a9-d6a56f1e8867.jpg?v=1729303086","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-gatekeeper-a-memoir-9780312316136","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}