{"product_id":"lydia-steptoe-stories-book-djuna-barnes-9780571352470","title":"The Lydia Steptoe Stories","description":"Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.   'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'  In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.  A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.'  Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.  Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49504662651153,"sku":"GOR009787693","price":4.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729614741777,"sku":"NGR9780571352470","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50446969012497,"sku":"CIN0571352472G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52834176205073,"sku":"GOR010191605","price":3.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53558071525649,"sku":"GOR012462084","price":4.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571352472.jpg?v=1771499625","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/lydia-steptoe-stories-book-djuna-barnes-9780571352470","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}