{"product_id":"9781448210763","title":"It May Never Happen","description":"V.S. Pritchett's Englishness – the dependable Englishness of shabby, bumptious businessmen, shy wives, puritanical suburbanites and vinegar-tongued grandmothers – often came out in surprising ways. Though comfortably set in the dirty brick factories south of the river or the dreary commuter villages on the outskirts of London, a story will show a Russian sense of passing time or a French pertness, glow poetically like a Bruno Schulz, or wound with the terrible detail of a Danilo Kis. The innate knowledge of the insider is registered with the outsider's shocked vividness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fourteen stories of \u003ci\u003eIt May Never Happen\u003c\/i\u003e show Pritchett's distinctive mastery. A fearful sailor falls into temptation ashore. An evangelist of the Church of the Last Purification arrives in a provincial town to demonstrate the non-existence of evil. A party of cyclists mistakes a private house for a pub. Two business partners fall out over money and a typist called Miss Croft with a 'small waist' and 'big red fingers'. And Aunt Gertrude breaks a mirror and remembers her girlhood.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140359471344,"sku":"9781448210763","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448210763_p0.jpg?v=1763827423","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448210763","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}