{"product_id":"school-for-love-9781590173039","title":"School for Love","description":"Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and caf s, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies--joy, charity, and love--even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good.\u003cbr\u003e Olivia Manning's great subject is the lives of ordinary people caught up in history. Here, as in her panoramic depiction of World War II, \u003ci\u003eThe Balkan Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, she offers a rich and psychologically nuanced story of life on the precipice, and she tells it with equal parts compassion, skepticism, and humor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173039\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Annex\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/11\/2009\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Olivia Manning","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45058748711093,"sku":"9781590173039","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5f337ada-01c2-42cd-96e3-24a815a9ec90.jpg?v=1738078273","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/school-for-love-9781590173039","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}