{"product_id":"all-souls-9780307950772","title":"All Souls","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most important voices in world literature--and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Infatuations--\u003c\/i\u003ea darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\"Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers.\" --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply \"being\" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from \"one of the best contemporary writers\" (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307950772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Javier Mar\u0026#237;as","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084088213685,"sku":"9780307950772","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6b4ff1f0-8375-48bb-a68e-504af14c7756.jpg?v=1692110083","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-souls-9780307950772","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}