{"product_id":"mr-mac-and-me","title":"Mr. Mac and Me","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMr. Mac and Me\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEsther Freud\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781620408834\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBloomsbury USA\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1914, and Thomas Maggs, son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet--shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming, the summer visitors, and the girls who come from the Highlands every year to gut and pack the herring. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives. To Thomas he looks like a detective in his black cape and felted wool hat, puffing on his pipe like Sherlock Holmes. Mac is what the locals call him when they whisper about him. And whisper they do, for he sets off on his walks at unlikely hours and stops to examine the humblest flowers. He is seen on the beach, staring out across the waves as if he's searching for clues. But Mac isn't a detective, he's the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and together with his artist wife, they soon become a source of fascination and wonder to Thomas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yet just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to blossom, war with Germany is declared. The summer guests flee and are replaced by regiments of soldiers, and as the brutality of war weighs increasingly heavily on this coastal community, they become more suspicious of Mac and his curious ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this story of an unlikely friendship, Esther Freud paints a vivid portrait of the home front during World War I, and of a man who was one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Mr. Mac and Me | Esther Freud | Hardcover | 9781620408834 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1743774","offer_id":48199410122904,"sku":"1743774","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81xe3weS7cS.jpg?v=1772557301","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/mr-mac-and-me","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}