{"product_id":"girl-20","title":"Girl, 20","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and \u003ci\u003eGirl, 20\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. Amis’s antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer who bears more than a passing resemblance to Leonard Bernstein, is a pillar of the establishment who has fallen hard for protest, bellbottoms, and the electric guitar. And since vain Sir Vandervane is a great success, he is also free to pursue his greatest failing: a taste for younger and younger women. Highborn hippie Sylvia (not, in fact, twenty) is his latest infatuation and a threat to his whole family, from his drama-queen wife, Kitty, to Penny, his long-suffering daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll this is recounted by Douglas Yandell, a music critic with his own love problems, who finds that he too has a part in this story of botched artistry, bumbling celebrity, and scheming family, in a time that for all its high-minded talk is as low and dishonest as any other.\u003cspan style=\"display:\" none\u003eKingsley Amis, introduction by Howard Jacobson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55690362650697,"sku":"9781590176634","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/2026\/9897\/files\/Girl-20-Cover.jpg?v=1779095090","url":"https:\/\/yyg0cd-80.myshopify.com\/products\/girl-20","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}