{"product_id":"9789810793753","title":"The Languages of Love","description":"Twenty-nine year old Julia Grampion has just received her doctorate at London University, but life is looking rather dismal. Her affair with Paul has ended, and she drifts to a relationship with Bernard, learning a different and changeable idiom of love, learning how language disguises the shifting uncertainties of the human ties that bind.\u003cbr\u003eThe story is set in a cosmopolitan 1950s London featuring university departments, the Reading Room of the British Museum, espresso bars and little Soho restaurants, publishers' parties, and a Bloomsbury \"room of one's own\".\u003cbr\u003eThe characters are many and varied, including Bernard, Julia's new lover, a sensual, cultured, and selfish academic, with a learned French wife, Nicolette; Paul, charming and still in love with Julia, devoted and unwilling or unable to transgress the laws of his Church; East African student Hussein, passionate and intelligent, simple and prompt with Sanuri proverbs, like a sudden and refreshing oasis appearing in the desert of the arid London life, that express his love for the beautiful Georgina. A first novel of drollery and intelligence, marking the arrival of the unrivalled and extraordinary talent of Christine Brooke-Rose.\u003cbr\u003e\"She is a scholar and a wit and her first novel is delightful. She turns pedantry into a fool's bladder.\"-JOHN DAVENPORT, The Observer\u003cbr\u003e \"Miss Brooke-Rose is a new novelist worth watching.\"-Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\"Among women novelists of the post-war generation, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Christine Brooke-Rose make a formidable trio.\"-Church Times\u003cbr\u003e\"She takes a splendid swipe at her go-getting cultural profiteers . . . she has also drawn a most devastating picture of cosy spiritual smugness among the elite.\"-PETER GREEN, Daily Telegraph","brand":"VerbivoraciousPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065671893232,"sku":"9789810793753","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789810793753_p0.jpg?v=1763689458","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789810793753","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}