{"product_id":"9780771075254","title":"An Appetite for Life","description":"By: Charles Ritchie     \u003chr\u003eCharles Ritchie’s first volume of diaries, \u003ci\u003eThe Siren Years\u003c\/i\u003e, created a sensation when  it was published in 1974. Besides winning the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction,  it was hailed by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. \u003ci\u003eAn Appetite for Life\u003c\/i\u003e, his  second volume, first published in 1977, deals with his youth in Halifax and his career  at Oxford—the years when Charles Ritchie turned from a callow, blundering youth  into a callow, blundering young man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As these diaries show, Charles Ritchie had  a sharp eye, a keen ear, a highly developed sense of the absurd, and—despite his  unhappy knack of landing flat on his face —a thorough “appetite for life.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This  is not only a hilariously funny book, but it presents a vivid picture of two worlds—Halifax and Oxford in the mid-twenties—that are now long gone. It also introduces  us to an astonishing range of characters, but the most astonishing of all is the  young Charles Ritchie himself.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"CA - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46757482954979,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780771075254","price":105.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780771075254.jpg?v=1751657924","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9780771075254","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}