{"product_id":"the-custom-of-the-country-9780684825885","title":"The Custom of the Country","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Edith Wharton and \u003ci\u003eCustom of the Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine… Wharton’s portrait of [her] is so acute that it frequently flickers across time into the contemporary.”\u003cb\u003e—Jia Tolentino, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Prescient… In this new Gilded Age, when the disparities between rich and poor are again, and disastrously, as great as they were in Wharton’s time, we could do with such a novelist, a cultural anthropologist who might hold up a mirror to our failings and our future, with eagle-eyed clarity and a small measure of compassion.”\u003cb\u003e—Claire Messud, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as ‘major,’ and Edith Wharton is one.”\u003cb\u003e—Gore Vidal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Wharton is an amusingly ruthless observer of the manners and mores of the wealthy.”\u003cb\u003e—Jay McInerney, \u003ci\u003eThe Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195212886359,"sku":"9780684825885","price":17.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-custom-of-the-country-9780684825885","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}