{"product_id":"9781526615589","title":"Orlando King","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Colegate, Isabel, Harrison, Melissa, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 11\/06\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 608 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Second World War fiction\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781526615589\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eOrlando King is a trilogy about a beautiful young man, raised in a remote and eccentric wilderness, arriving in 1930s London and setting the world of politics ablaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a time of bread riots and hunger marches, with the spectre of Fascism casting an ever lengthening shadow over Europe, Orlando glidingly cuts a swathe through the thickets of business, the corridors of politics, the pleasure gardens of the Cliveden set, acquiring wealth, adulation, a beautiful wife, and a seat in Parliament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the advent of war brings with it Orlando's downfall; and his daughter Agatha, cloistered with him in his banishment, is left to pick through the rubble of his smoking, ruined legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegant and muscular, powerful and razor-sharp, Orlando King is a bildungsroman, Greek tragedy and political saga all in one; a glittering exorcism of the inter-war generation's demons to rival the work of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37650344902809,"sku":"9781526615589","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781526615589.jpg?v=1609430099","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781526615589","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}