{"product_id":"brother-of-the-more-famous-jack-9798896230779","title":"Brother of the More Famous Jack","description":"\u003cb\u003eA cult classic of British literature, this coming-of-age novel follows a young woman who is transformed by her connection with an idiosyncratic, academic family in London.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Goldman home, anarchic, proudly carnal, and teeming with little children, could not be less like the stultifyingly respectable one Katherine Browne has just left. She enters university in search of an education--and she will find one, not in the classroom but among the Goldmans: Jacob, the Falstaffian philosophy professor; Jane, his earth-goddess wife; and their older sons, Roger, \"gorgeous,\" and Jonathan, \"equally gorgeous, but trouble.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrother of the More Famous Jack\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the eroticism of the intellect, about falling in love with a family, and about refashioning the bonds of youth. It bears comparison with Alan Hollinghurst's \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, and it is a book that welcomes readers into its own capacious, wise embrace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Trapido\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798896230779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Trapido\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1941) was raised in South Africa and emigrated to England in 1963. She published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eBrother of the More Famous Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, at the age of forty, writing it while working on a never-to-be-completed dissertation on the poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and raising two children. Of her seven published novels, two, \u003ci\u003eThe Travelling Hornplayer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrankie \u0026amp; Stankie \u003c\/i\u003ewere short-listed for the Whitbread Prize, with \u003ci\u003eBrother of the More Famous Jack\u003c\/i\u003e receiving a Whitbread Special Prize for Fiction in 1982. Having worked as a schoolteacher before turning to writing full-time, Trapido in later years taught courses at the Arvon Foundation creative writing program. She lives in Oxford, England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMick Herron\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twenty-one books, including four in the Zoë Boehm mystery series and nine in the Slough House espionage series, both of which have been translated into many languages and adapted for television. He lives in Oxford, England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Barbara Trapido \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":49001568895133,"sku":"9798896230779","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_56a8ddfe-2363-479a-9b30-68a3add28055.jpg?v=1791980306","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/brother-of-the-more-famous-jack-9798896230779","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}