{"product_id":"an-awfully-big-adventure-1961341921","title":"An Awfully Big Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1961341921\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bainbridge, Beryl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theaters postwar production of Peter Pan: its close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction. (The Times))Liverpool, 1950. Against the grimy backdrop of the gray postwar city, a shabby, scandal-steeped repertory theater company rehearses for their Christmas performance of Peter Pan. Treading the boards for the first time is sixteen-year-old Stella Bradshaw, ambitious, idealistic, and still overwhelmingly innocent. She falls hard for the rakish, monocled director, Meredith Potter, but, unable to attract his attentions-and not understanding why hes spending quite so much time with their male colleagues-she turns to another colleague to initiate her into the ways of love. Enter the celebrated P. L. OHara, a dashing leading man whos nursing secrets of his own. When the curtain is up, fantastical entertainment abounds, but backstage a very different drama is playing out: a pitch-black comedy of indiscretion, intrigue, and eventual tragedy.Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and dusted with that magical air of Pinteresque menace and Sparkian malice [that] lingers around the margins of [all of Beryl Bainbridges] fiction, (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review), An Awfully Big Adventure is one of the authors very best-and best-loved-novels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52178046452000,"sku":"NEW1961341921","price":20.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91VFIPZwIDL.jpg?v=1786484430","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/an-awfully-big-adventure-1961341921","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}