{"product_id":"9781504018739","title":"A Tree on Fire: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second novel in award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe’s William Posters Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis an existential investigation of protest and revolution in 1960s North Africa and England\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jewish dilettante Myra Bassingfield returns to England from Gibraltar with her four-week-old son. Frank Dawley, the child’s father and the anarchist antihero of \u003ci\u003eThe Death of William Posters\u003c\/i\u003e, has disappeared into the African desert, where he is fighting with the FLN (\u003ci\u003eFront de Libération Nationale\u003c\/i\u003e) for Algerian independence against French troops.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Greeting Myra quayside as she disembarks from the ship is Frank’s friend, Albert Handley, an idealistic painter living in a chaotic house in Linconshire with seven kids, a bulldog, six cats, and two \u003ci\u003eau pair\u003c\/i\u003e girls. Albert’s brother, John, is determined to break from the family and he sets off for Algeria to track Frank down—but not before burning the Handley house to the ground. The Handley brood must then move in with Myra in Buckinghamshire, and by the time Frank finally shows up, they have formed a domestic cell of protest that may just plant the seeds of a new English revolution.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From ramshackle life in a commune to undercover gunrunning, this is Alan Sillitoe, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner\u003c\/i\u003e, at his humorous and literary best.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Sillitoe including rare images from the author’s estate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126967320816,"sku":"9781504018739","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504018739_p0.jpg?v=1769897235","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504018739","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}