{"product_id":"9781590177556","title":"The Slaves of Solitude","description":"England  in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever,  a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat.  Everything is in short supply, and tempers are even shorter. Overwhelmed  by the terrors and rigors of the Blitz, middle-aged Miss Roach has  retreated to the relative safety and stupefying boredom of the suburban  town of Thames Lockdon, where she rents a room in a boarding house run  by Mrs. Payne. There the savvy, sensible, decent, but all-too-meek Miss  Roach endures the dinner-table interrogations of Mr. Thwaites and seeks  to relieve her solitude by going out drinking and necking with a wayward  American lieutenant. Life is almost bearable until Vicki Kugelmann, a  seeming friend, moves into the adjacent room. That’s when Miss Roach’s  troubles really begin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recounting an epic battle of wills in the claustrophobic confines of the boarding house, Patrick Hamilton’s \u003ci\u003eThe Slaves of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e,  with a delightfully improbable heroine, is one of the finest and  funniest books ever written about the trials of a lonely heart.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172781408496,"sku":"9781590177556","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177556_p0.jpg?v=1763806749","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177556","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}