{"product_id":"hopeful-monsters-9781628975741","title":"Hopeful Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThirty-five years after its original publication, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHopeful Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e reemerges as one of the \"grand intellectual dramas\" of the 20th century (-\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping, comprehensive epic, \u003cem\u003eHopeful Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student studying physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jew and political radical. Together, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual movements which shape the twentieth-century, taking them from Cambridge and Berlin to the Spanish Civil War, Russia, the Sahara, and finally to Los Alamos to witness the first nuclear test. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published as the culminating volume of a series of five works of fiction entitled \"Catastrophe Practice\" that \u003cem\u003eThe Chicago Tribune \u003c\/em\u003ecalled \"one of the most important extended literary projects of [the 20th] century,\" \u003cem\u003eHopeful Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e is the first reissue in a new Dalkey Archive initiative to bring Mosley's epistolary genius back into circulation for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628975741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.60d","brand":"Nicholas Mosley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239302983861,"sku":"9781628975741","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_45c23c39-ef8c-4b29-80ed-d0e01c8c6e69.jpg?v=1770917706","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hopeful-monsters-9781628975741","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}