{"product_id":"box-hill-a-story-of-low-selfesteem-9780811230056","title":"Box Hill  A Story of Low SelfEsteem","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A sizzling and deeply touching love story between two men, set in the gay biker community of 1970s London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mars-Jones’ trim, poignant novel humanizes the intricacies of a dominant-submissive gay relationship.... As the narrator says, “What I saw of his life was about excitement, about magic,” a spell that will fall on readers, too.\" -- Kirkus (starred)\u003cbr\u003e\"Mars-Jones’s prose is exceptionally nimble, dry, humorously restrained, very English, with a little Nabokovian velvet too. He can describe more or less anything and make it interesting.\" -- James Wood - London Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\"Mars-Jones is a writer of wonderful originality and wit.\" -- The Times (London)\u003cbr\u003e\"Dry, accurate, tragic.\" -- Edmund White\u003cbr\u003e\"I very much enjoyed \u003cem\u003eBox Hill\u003c\/em\u003e. It is a characteristic Mars-Jones mixture of the shocking, the endearing, the funny, and the sad, with an unforgettable narrator. The sociological detail is as ever acutely enduring.\" -- Margaret Drabble","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195225370967,"sku":"9780811230056","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780811230056.jpg?v=1763646804","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/box-hill-a-story-of-low-selfesteem-9780811230056","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}