{"product_id":"the-secret-history-of-modernism","title":"The Secret History Of Modernism","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eSecond-Hand (Hardcover)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe arrival of a stranger to his house in Auckland leads renowned novelist Laslo Winter to look back to the past, to London, the late 1950s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Empire was collapsing, yet young \"colonials\", for whom England remained a mythical place, were still drawn there from its farthest corners.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Samantha Conlan had come from Sydney, ostensibly fleeing an affair with married Freddy Goldstein, a Holocaust survivor. But Samantha knows Freddy will come to London; and as she waits for him, she continues her peculiar research into the great writers of the time, in a research project that she names \"The Secret History of Modernism\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmong her circle of friends and admirers is the young Laslo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeautifully written, with wonderful clarity and humour, The Secret History of Modernism reflects on post-war England and its Empire in the wake of the greatest upheaval of the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C. K. Stead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42983955431593,"sku":"","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/md30982422708.jpg?v=1679369633","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-secret-history-of-modernism","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}