{"product_id":"9781400077397","title":"The Finishing School","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved \u003cb\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.\u003c\/b\u003eCollege Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into Rowland’s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse fraught with jealousy and attraction, both literary and sexual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025182179568,"sku":"9781400077397","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400077397_p0.jpg?v=1763713368","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400077397","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}