{"product_id":"9780892550593","title":"The Rock Pool","description":"First published in 1936, and long out of print, this famous novel is now presented in a new edition with a new, informative introduction by Peter Quennell to whom the book is dedicated.\u003cp\u003eThis totally engaging satire chronicles the clash between two cultures - the snobbish, cliche-ridden English world that Naylor, the hero, represents, and an international group of artists and writers who inhabit a French Riviera town. Naylor, a smug young literary man from Oxford, at first studies the dissolute inhabitants as if they were aquatic organisms in a pool. But he is soon demoralized and swindled by them, and as winter approaches he remains, scarcely to be distinguished from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch has been written of the expatriate temper, but nowhere has it been treated with greater wit, spirit, and elegance of style than in this small, enduring classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Persea Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022971158768,"sku":"9780892550593","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780892550593_p0.jpg?v=1763846839","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780892550593","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}