{"product_id":"9781590175521","title":"The Middle of the Journey","description":"Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling's  only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological  disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy era. \u003ci\u003eThe Middle of the Journey\u003c\/i\u003e revolves around a political turncoat and the anger his action awakens  among a group of intellectuals summering in Connecticut. The story,  however, is less concerned with the rights and wrongs of left and right  than with an absence of integrity at the very heart of the debate.  Certainly the hero, John Laskell, staging a slow recovery from the death  of his lover and a near-fatal illness of his own, comes to suspect that  the conflicts and commitments involved are little more than a  distraction from the real responsibilities, and terrors, of the common  world. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A detailed, sometimes slyly humorous, picture of the manners and  mores of the intelligentsia, as well as a work of surprising tenderness  and ultimately tragic import, \u003ci\u003eThe Middle of the Journey\u003c\/i\u003e is a  novel of ideas whose quiet resonance has only grown with time. This is a  deeply troubling examination of America by one of its greatest critics.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138099036400,"sku":"9781590175521","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175521_p0.jpg?v=1763802849","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175521","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}