{"product_id":"9780571314171","title":"Vac","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This book seems to be about us. Within a day or two of starting it I devised a title: VAC... The subtle idea was to fuse the suggestion of holiday or vacation with that of vacuum...'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Ableman's third novel, first published in 1968, is - through the voice of its narrator Billy Soodernim, libidinous and regretful by turns - a meditation on love and carnality, monogamy and promiscuity, childbirth, separation and indeed the whole of the fraught relations between the sexes: \u003ci\u003e'male and female, citizens with distinct personalities, flesh inwraught in flesh.' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Paul Ableman's novels were praised for their inventive language, bawdy high spirits, and originality of form by Anthony Burgess, Philip Toynbee, Robert Nye and other friends of the avant-garde. They are witty, original, and full of good humour, and I am delighted Faber Finds are reissuing them.' Margaret Drabble\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106538438896,"sku":"9780571314171","price":16.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571314171_p0.jpg?v=1763718949","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571314171","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}