{"title":"Novel","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"wolfe-thomas-you-cant-go-home-again","title":"Wolfe, Thomas: You Can't Go Home Again","description":"\u003cp\u003eWolfe, Thomas \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1934 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassics \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNovel \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eGeorge Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home. He begins a search for his own identity that takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler's shadow. 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The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000 acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek “the Canon” Fanon, a homegrown product of the city’s slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city’s delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNetworks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates — Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. Charlie Croker’s deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious and telling novel America has seen in ages — Tom Wolfe’s most outstanding achievement to date.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexandria (the library)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48004316463325,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/8235\/9773\/files\/22140E95-858B-4C36-8118-60CF553350EA.jpg?v=1780599764"},{"product_id":"camus-albert-the-fall","title":"Camus, Albert: The Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamus, Albert \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1956\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassics \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilosophy \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNovel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eJean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e (French: \u003ci\u003eLa Chute\u003c\/i\u003e) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e explores themes of innocence, imprisonment, non-existence, and truth. 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