{"product_id":"antic-hay-paperback","title":"Antic Hay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA social satire dissecting morally bankrupt London society just after World War I, from the author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrave New World.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Hemingway's \u003cem\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/em\u003e, Aldous Huxley's \u003cem\u003eAntic Hay\u003c\/em\u003e, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, and cock-eyed futurists all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, in what \u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e called \"a delirium of sense enjoyment!\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50110550737119,"sku":"9781628975680","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5oqYo1APbu9781628975680.webp?v=1781291162","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/antic-hay-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}