{"product_id":"unexploded-paperback-by-alison-macleod","title":"Unexploded Paperback by Alison Macleod","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eHamish Hamilton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2013-09-10)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e352\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780143190455\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e458.14\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9.01 x 6.12 x 0.88\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel of fine-tuned beauty, sharp insight and emotional subtlety – about a family in the shadow of WWII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMay, 1940.  Brighton.  Wartime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Park Crescent, a sunlit and usually tranquil street, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news.  The enemy is expected to land on the beaches of Brighton any day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a year of tension and change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, while young Philip is gripped by the rumour that Hitler will make Brighton’s Royal Pavilion his English HQ.  He spends hours with his friends imagining life in Brighton under Hitler’s rule.  And as the rumours continue to fly and the days tick on, Evelyn struggles to fall in with the war effort and the constraints of her role in life, her thoughts becoming tinged with a mounting, indefinable desperation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen she meets Otto Gottlieb, a \"degenerate\" German-Jewish painter and prisoner in her husband’s internment camp. As Europe crumbles, Evelyn’s and Otto’s mutual distrust slowly begins to change into something else, which will shatter the structures on which her life, her family and her community rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove collides with fear, the power of art with the forces of war, and the lives of Evelyn, Otto, and Geoffrey are changed irrevocably.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eALISON MacLEOD grew up in Montreal and Halifax, and has lived in England since 1987. She is the author of three novels,\u003ci\u003e The Changeling, The Wave Theory of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUnexploded\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the Booker Prize. She has also published two collections of stories, \u003ci\u003eFifteen Modern Tales of Attraction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll the Beloved Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Until 2018, she was Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester, when she became Visiting Professor, to work full-time on \u003ci\u003eTenderness\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brighton and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44900696162465,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780143190455","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780143190455.jpg?v=1744360801","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/unexploded-paperback-by-alison-macleod","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}