{"product_id":"9780571304219","title":"Imaginary Toys","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImaginary Toys\u003c\/i\u003e (1961) marked the literary debut of the then 26-year-old Julian Mitchell, who would eventually set aside his prizewinning career as a novelist and achieve wider renown as a dramatist, most famously with \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1981). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImaginary Toys\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of Oxford after World War Two, where class consciousness has become newly acute, and a quartet of narrators wrestle with their studies and their more personal difficulties - among the four a coalminer's son and the daughter of a solid bourgeois family, who fall in love to the discomfort of their respective friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first of a sequence of reflective, autobiographical new introductions composed especially for Faber Finds' reissues of his early novels, Julian Mitchell recalls the atmosphere of mid-1950s Oxford, and the path he took to a literary vocation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124380647664,"sku":"9780571304219","price":16.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571304219_p0.jpg?v=1763719065","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571304219","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}