{"product_id":"9781925410150","title":"A Little Tea, a Little Chat","description":"\u003cp\u003e  New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the ‘blondine’, a woman he cannot best. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA sardonic commentary on sexual relations and war as potent as when it was first published in 1948, \u003ci\u003eA Little Tea, a Little Chat\u003c\/i\u003e holds up a mirror to the corruption and cravenness of our late-capitalist moment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Stead\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1902 in Sydney. Stead’s first books, \u003ci\u003eThe Salzburg Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeven Poor Men of Sydney\u003c\/i\u003e, were published in 1934 to positive reviews in England and the United States. Her fourth work, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Loved Children\u003c\/i\u003e, has been hailed as a ‘masterpiece’ by Jonathan Franzen, among others. In total, Stead wrote almost twenty novels and short-story collections. Stead returned to Australia in 1969 after forty years abroad for a fellowship at the Australian National University. She resettled permanently in Australia in 1974 and was the first recipient of the Patrick White Award that year. Christina Stead died in Sydney in 1983, aged eighty. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential Australian authors of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘[Christina Stead] is really marvellous.’ Saul Bellow\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A sprawling character study…Callous, comical, loathsome, and tiresome, Grant also, as the David Malouf introduction notes, can sometimes stir sympathy thanks to Stead’s artistry.’ \u003ci\u003eKirkus reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review  \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141111070960,"sku":"9781925410150","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925410150_p0.jpg?v=1763634851","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925410150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}