{"product_id":"9780374187705","title":"Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty, appealing, and often outrageous portrait of some of the twentieth century's most influential and creative minds\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSubtitled \"\u003ci\u003eAn Education in the Twenties\u003c\/i\u003e,\" \u003ci\u003eLions and Shadows \u003c\/i\u003eblends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to Cambridge dropout-at-large in London's bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Christopher Isherwood's contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172392386800,"sku":"9780374187705","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374187705_p0.jpg?v=1769916888","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374187705","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}