{"product_id":"9781783524426","title":"Under the Table","description":"\u003cp\u003eDominic da Silva, in his late fifties, has terminal cancer. This diagnosis prompts him to return to the diaries he kept from his boarding school years into his early thirties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese notebooks conjure lost tableaux of Britain in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s: with the emotional repression and genteel rural poverty of his youth, through to upbeat accounts of later joyful excess and profound friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDominic has the chameleon qualities of the true survivor: by the age of thirty, he has carved out a promising career and is married to a wealthy young lawyer, herself the very epitome of upward mobility. But he’s cursed, it seems, by wanting everything to which he’s supremely ill-suited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quarter of a century later, it all looks very different. His has, in many ways, been a thwarted existence, and Dominic’s diaries chart his lurching journey towards self-recognition – from grand house parties to a hostel for the homeless, from an apparently perfect life to arrest and ignominy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder the Table\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful homage to truth and friendship – and a recognition of the toughness upon which both depend.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181368361200,"sku":"9781783524426","price":23.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783524426_p0.jpg?v=1763724814","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783524426","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}