{"product_id":"9780060976293","title":"In Pursuit of the English","description":"By: Doris Lessing     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the most authentic books ever written about the English....Funny, touching and so real that the smell and taste of London seem to rise from its pages.\" — \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Pursuit of the English\u003c\/em\u003e is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about--though they are the \u003cem\u003ereal\u003c\/em\u003e English. The cast of characters — if that term can be applied to real people — includes: Bobby Brent, a con man; Mrs. Skeffington, a genteel woman who bullies her small child and flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another; and Miss Priest, a prostitute, who replies to Lessing's question \"Don't you ever like sex?\" with \"If you're going to talk dirty, I'm not interested.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn swift, barbed style, in high, hard, farcical writing that is eruptively funny, Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that is a brilliant piece of cultural interpretation, an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":48093622599907,"sku":"DTRHCUS-9780060976293","price":112.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780060976293.jpg?v=1770631298","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9780060976293","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}