{"title":"Dinah Brooke","description":"Dinah Brooke left Cheltenham Ladies' College at sixteen to go to Paris, where she studied sculpture and Greek. She read English at Oxford, attended film school in London, briefly worked for a documentary film company, and spent a year in Greenwich Village. Back in London, she married, had twins, and, in the early 1970s, published four critically acclaimed novels. In 1975, she took sannyas, was given the new name Ma Prem Pankaja by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and lived for the next six years in his ashram in Poona, India. She returned to London in 1981, where she lives today.","products":[{"product_id":"love-life-of-a-cheltenham-lady-paperback","title":"Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \"brilliant forgotten novelist\" behind the \"ferocious\" \u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a searing tale of a young woman's unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiranda, her husband Louis, and their infant daughter are set to spend the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. He's a self-assured young American actor; she, a well-educated, well-bred English ingénue. But when Louis is called away to a shoot, Miranda is left alone with her baby in the remote Italian countryside--until a young Italian named Oreste arrives, claiming to have been invited by her now-absent husband.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiranda quickly falls under the interloper's spell--and into his arms--launching into a feverish affair that threatens to dissolve her already fragile, fracturing sense of self. As events spiral further out of her control, the novel hurtles headlong toward its horrifying conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the same \"limpid, assured style: cruel, yes, but not detached or apathetic\" (\u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) as \u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home\u003c\/i\u003e, Dinah Brooke's transgressive debut remains every bit as shocking as when it was first published in 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102619472095,"sku":"9781961341647","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pU7TSDeiHY9781961341647.webp?v=1781083624"},{"product_id":"lord-jim-at-home-paperback","title":"Lord Jim at Home - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A ferocious comedy of middle-class dysfunction . . . published to controversy in 1973 . . . A masterpiece.\" --Claire Allfree, \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Dinah Brooke's second novel, \u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home, \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1973, it was described as \"squalid and startling,\" \"nastily horrific,\" and a \"monstrous parody\" of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day--like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic \u003ci\u003eLord Jim--\u003c\/i\u003ecommits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOut of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), \u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty \"in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104876269791,"sku":"9781946022646","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4RJ-IoBP8m9781946022646.webp?v=1781111502"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/dinah-brooke.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}