{"product_id":"9780571277346","title":"The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures: An intrepid selection from the original volumes","description":"\u003cp\u003eLast year Stephen Pile attempted to deliver a daring blow to the success ethic that so pervades Western culture. To his dismay, \u003ci\u003eThe Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures \u003c\/i\u003esold many copies and even became the\u003ci\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e 'Humour Book of the Year.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing daunted, Stephen returns with a new selection which brings together the very best of his original classic titles - \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Heroic Failures\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Heroic Failures\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe  heartwarming news that stays news is that there really is no limit to  what humanity can achieve, as we move onwards and downwards to ever more  immortal and breathtaking feats of incompetence. \u003ci\u003eThe Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures\u003c\/i\u003e lovingly chronicles the all-time heroes who have been so bad at things that they shine as beacons for future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt  is hard not to feel boundless admiration, for example, for the fifty  Mexican convicts who dug an escape tunnel out of their jail and came up  in the courtroom where many of them had been sentenced. Or for the  world's worst tourist, who spent three days in New York believing he was  in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123782041840,"sku":"9780571277346","price":14.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571277346_p0.jpg?v=1763719655","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571277346","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}