{"product_id":"9781473512771","title":"A Local Habitation: Life and Times, Volume One 1918-40","description":"Richard Hoggart's book, \u003ci\u003eThe Uses of Literary, \u003c\/i\u003eestablished his reputation as a uniquely sensitive and observant chronicler of English working-class life. In this vivid first volume of autobiography he describes his origins in that milieu. Orphaned at an early age, Hoggart grew up in a working-class district of Leeds, in an intimate world of terraced back-to-backs, visits from the local Board of Guardians, clothing checks and potted-meat sandwiches. With affectionate insight he recreates the family circle - a loving grandmother, one domineering and on gentle aunt, and a bibulous, melancholy uncle - and recalls his early schooling, the friends he made and the mentors he admired. Hard-working and articulate, Hoggart did well enough at grammar school to go on to Leeds University. This volume ends as, having earned a higher degree and travelled in Nazi Germany, he prepares to leave Yorkshire, via the Army, for the world beyond. Wry, compassionate, exact, \u003ci\u003eA Local Habitation\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic recreation of working-class England between the wars.","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107550576880,"sku":"9781473512771","price":22.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781473512771_p0.jpg?v=1763601943","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781473512771","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}