{"product_id":"lucking-out-book-james-wolcott-9780385527781","title":"Lucking Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of our most admired (and feared) cultural critics, a memoir that captures all the gritty, grubby glamour of New York in the awful\/wonderful Seventies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the autumn of 1972, a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as Downtown became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a critic as a young man is also a rollicking, acutely observant portrait of a legendary time and place. Mixing grit and glitter in just the right proportions, suffused with affection for the talented and sometimes half-crazed denizens of the scene, it will make readers long for a time when you really could get mugged around here.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49895336542481,"sku":"CIN0385527780G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350770815249,"sku":"CIN0385527780VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51471159099665,"sku":"GOR009115696","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385527780.jpg?v=1751454508","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/lucking-out-book-james-wolcott-9780385527781","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}