{"product_id":"9781841950037","title":"Farewell Miss Julie Logan: A Barrie Omnibus: The Little White Bird: The Twelve-Pound Look: Farewell Miss Julie Logan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis selection of J M Barrie's work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe disturbing prose fable of \u003ci\u003eThe Little White Bird \u003c\/i\u003econtains the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme, properly set in the wider context of a middle-aged man's engagement with creation, fantasy and loneliness-a theme which made Barrie world-famous and haunted him for the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a one-act play of scintillating satire, \u003ci\u003eThe Twelve-Pound Look\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the pomposities of male pride and public success in 1910 from the point of view of an ex-wife unexpectedly returned as her (be)knighted husband's typist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in diary form and telling of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, \u003ci\u003eFarewell Miss Julie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLogan\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the author's fascination with longing, death and loss in a novella which can stand with the stories of the supernatural and which itself raises questions about the nature of romance fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers an exciting reassessment of one of Scotland's most unusual and misrepresented writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050867114224,"sku":"9781841950037","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781841950037_p0.jpg?v=1763744344","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781841950037","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}