{"product_id":"an-awfully-big-adventure","title":"An Awfully Big Adventure","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAn Awfully Big Adventure\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eYiyun Bainbridge, Beryl; Li\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781961341920\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMcNally Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e216\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theater's postwar production of \u003ci\u003ePeter Pan\u003c\/i\u003e: its \"close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times)\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiverpool, 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 he's 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. O'Hara, a dashing leading man who's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted 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 Bainbridge's] fiction,\" (Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eAn Awfully Big Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the author's very best--and best-loved--novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"An Awfully Big Adventure | Yiyun Bainbridge, Beryl; Li | Paperback | 9781961341920 | New | Fiction 1739331","offer_id":48307564347544,"sku":"1739331","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91A5Kj87yCL.jpg?v=1773151267","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/an-awfully-big-adventure","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}