{"product_id":"9781509864195-george-passant","title":"George Passant","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe second book in C. P. Snow's magnificent \u003ci\u003eStrangers and Brothers \u003c\/i\u003esequence. Set between 1925 and 1933, it narrates the rise and fall of an idealistic solicitor's clerk in a small provincial town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLewis Eliot, the diffident protagonist of the \u003ci\u003eStrangers and Brothers \u003c\/i\u003esequence, retreats to the background in this absorbing study of his mentor, George Passant, a charismatic solicitor’s clerk. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the years of economic depression between the wars, George – an idealistic radical bursting with notions of creating the world anew – gathers about him a group of young people who, restive and ambitious, trust him to emancipate them from the constraints of their provincial lives. But when his lofty aspirations become muddied with a need for money and desire for sexual freedom, his power over the group becomes a danger to them all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitics, people and the rapidly changing social landscape of inter-war Britain are narrated with Snow’s trademark subtlety and precision in this fascinating analysis of a god with feet of clay. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA meticulous study of the public issues and private problems of post-war Britain, C. P. Snow’s \u003ci\u003eStrangers and Brothers \u003c\/i\u003esequence is a towering achievement that stands alongside Anthony Powell’s \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the great romans-fleuves of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57854064296310,"sku":"9781509864195","price":13.62,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_17118867_jpg.jpg?v=1778564392","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781509864195-george-passant","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}