{"product_id":"2940016468310","title":"Overlooked","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003eWhen my old friend and trusted adviser, Doctor Kennaway, told me that I must go to Haréville and stay there a month or, still better, two months, I asked him what I could possibly do there. The only possible pastime at a watering-place is to watch. A blind man is debarred from that pastime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe said to me: \"Why don't you write a novel?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI said that I had never written anything in my life. He then said that a famous editor, of the Figaro, I think, had once said that every man had one newspaper article in him. Novel could be substituted for newspaper article. I objected that, although I found writing on my typewriter a soothing occupation, I had always been given to understand by authors that correcting proofs was the only real fun in writing a book. I was debarred from that. We talked of other things and I thought no more about this till after I had been at Haréville a week.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I arrived there, although the season had scarcely begun, I made acquaintances more rapidly than I had expected, and most of my time was taken up in idle conversation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter I had been drinking the waters for a week, I made the acquaintance of James Rudd, the novelist. I had never met him before. I have, indeed, rarely met a novelist. When I have done so they have either been elderly ladies who specialized in the life of the Quartier-Latin, or country gentlemen who kept out all romance from their general conversation, which they confined to the crops and the misdeeds of the Government.","brand":"Hannah Stuart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146617733360,"sku":"2940016468310","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016468310_p0.jpg?v=1763636403","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016468310","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}