{"product_id":"9781590177846","title":"Anglo-Saxon Attitudes","description":"Gerald  Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that,  he’s \"a failure with a conscience.\" As a young man, he was involved in  an archaeological dig that turned up an obscene idol in the coffin of a  seventh-century bishop and scandalized a generation. The discovery was  in fact the most outrageous archaeological hoax of the century, and  Gerald has long known who was responsible and why. But to reveal the  truth is to risk destroying the world of cozy compromises that,  personally as well as professionally, he has long made his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne  of England's first openly gay novelists, Angus Wilson was a dirty  realist who relished the sleaze and scuffle of daily life. Slashingly  satirical, virtuosically plotted, and displaying Dickensian humor and  nerve, \u003ci\u003eAnglo-Saxon Attitudes\u003c\/i\u003e features a vivid cast of characters  that includes scheming academics and fading actresses, big businessmen  toggling between mistresses and wives, media celebrities, hustlers,  transvestites, blackmailers, toadies, and even one holy fool. Everyone,  it seems, is either in cahoots or in the dark, even as comically  intrepid Gerald Middleton struggles to maintain some dignity while  digging up a history of lies.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158826205424,"sku":"9781590177846","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177846_p0.jpg?v=1763806754","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177846","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}