{"product_id":"summer-will-show-9781590173169","title":"Summer Will Show","description":"Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. Before long she has formed the unlikeliest of close relations with Minna, her husband's sometime mistress, whose dramatic recitations, based on her hair-raising childhood in czarist Russia, electrify audiences in drawing rooms and on the street alike. Minna, \"magnanimous and unscrupulous, fickle, ardent, and interfering,\" leads Sophia on a wild adventure through bohemian and revolutionary Paris, in a story that reaches an unforgettable conclusion amidst the bullets, bloodshed, and hope of the barricades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSylvia Townsend Warner was one of the most original and inventive of twentieth-century English novelists. At once an adventure story, a love story, and a novel of ideas, \u003ci\u003eSummer Will Show\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant reimagining of the possibilities of historical fiction.\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 06\/16\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.10w x 0.77d","brand":"Sylvia Townsend Warner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935618044085,"sku":"9781590173169","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1de9a81c-36c1-468e-92ec-a164d3e1ddb4.jpg?v=1688490662","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/summer-will-show-9781590173169","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}