{"product_id":"time-tide-book-edna-o-brien-9780374277765","title":"Time \u0026 Tide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA newly reissued novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eGirl\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most celebrated writers in the English language (NPR's \u003ci\u003eWeekend Edition\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs her disturbing novel clearly reveals, Edna O'Brien possesses what Henry James called an imagination for\u003cbr\u003edisaster. \u003ci\u003eTime and Tide\u003c\/i\u003e] is an anthology of heightened moments.never less than brilliantly expressed.\u003cb\u003e --Joel Conarroe, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTime and Tide is a fragmented novel detailing the loves and catastrophes--and catastrophic loves--of Nell, an Irish woman trying to make a life for herself in the literary world of London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA whimsical beauty who has swapped the suffocating narrowness of her native land for the loveless brutality of England (\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e), Nell is in flight from bitter, controlling, and small-minded parents, yet risks becoming just such a mother to her own sons. She seeks comfort and acceptance, yet finds death, drugs, and an orgy of humiliation (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). She seeks companionship, yet finds one after another predatory man: sadists, alcoholics, unscrupulous doctors, and even child molesters. Can Nell extract from the the vast inhospitality of a creaking world some measure of beauty and grace? The answer, of course, is yes--but at the price of many illusions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49522151325969,"sku":"GOR002722145","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51359473697041,"sku":"GOR010223857","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52940321816849,"sku":"CIN0374277761VG","price":6.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374277761.jpg?v=1751390914","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/time-tide-book-edna-o-brien-9780374277765","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}