{"product_id":"large-door","title":"Large Door","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn acid-sharp novella of longing and language, in which the past comes up hard against the present, from Jonathan Gibbs, acclaimed author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRandall, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eor \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Painted Grape\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (Galley Beggar, 2014):\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘It was not the only painting in the room, but it was the one that drew the eye. It was a Golden Age interior, the like of which you might see a dozen times in the Rijksmuseum, Jenny guessed, and once or twice in any gallery in Europe or America with a half-decent collection. Simple, domestic: a woman and a man in a room, the striking yellow and black tiled floor spread in expanding diamonds towards the viewer. There were paintings on the walls of the room in the painting, and a mirror on the left wall, tilted, that reflected the tiles, in a masterful flourish of perspective…’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jenny Thursley, a 40-year old linguistics lecturer, returns to Europe for a conference in Amsterdam, she finds herself pitched back into the presence of a life she had fled: a once-inspirational mentor now dying, a former lover again within reach, the flickerings of new desire. Over little more than twenty-four hours Jenny must write a keynote conferene speech, face up to her own mortality, and to the consequences of the bad choices she has made – while finding the nerve to make new choices that might be no better. Witty, sexy and provocative, \u003ci\u003eThe Large Door \u003c\/i\u003eis a meditation on life and living, and on ages – golden and otherwise – that recalls the sparkling mid-century work of writers such as Muriel Spark and Brigid Brophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316116562302,"sku":"NW9781911343547","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781911343547.jpg?v=1778717663","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/large-door","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}