{"product_id":"all-souls","title":"All Souls","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most important voices in world literature--and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Infatuations--\u003c\/i\u003ea darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\"Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers.\" --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply \"being\" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from \"one of the best contemporary writers\" (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature).","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54701595984238,"sku":"9780307950772","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_4a4ae628-7ec4-4d1b-ab9e-6008e98490a8.jpg?v=1788296986","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/all-souls","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}