{"product_id":"vladimir-hb-w2","title":"Julia May Jonas: Vladimir [2022] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If Netflix's \u003ci\u003eThe Chair\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa Taddeo's best-seller \u003ci\u003eThree Women\u003c\/i\u003e, and the most compelling passages of Ottessa Moshfegh's \u003ci\u003eDeath in Her Hands\u003c\/i\u003e had a love child (just go with me here), it would be this fiction debut. With a title character who's a sought-after young novelist new to a college faculty,\u003cbr\u003eVladimir leaves the reader with more questions than answers - about sex, and sexual politics - in the most delicious way.' - \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students - a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession of her own . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so we meet our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose husband, a charismatic professor at the same small liberal arts college, is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extramarital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both. And when our narrator becomes increasingly infatuated with Vladimir, a celebrated, married young novelist who's just arrived on campus, their tinder-box world comes dangerously close to exploding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her bold, edgy, and uncommonly assured literary debut, Julia May Jonas takes us into charged territory, where the strictures of morality bump up against the impulses of the human heart. Propulsive, darkly funny, and surreptitiously moving, \u003ci\u003eVladimir\u003c\/i\u003e maps the personal and political minefield of our current moment, exposing the messy contradictions of power and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonas, Julia May","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42324261404857,"sku":"9781529080445","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":46963085377875,"sku":"XE81529080445","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/jonas-julia-may-julia-may-jonas-vladimir-2022-hardback-60201423602003.jpg?v=1732683539","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/vladimir-hb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}