{"product_id":"coming-from-behind-1","title":"Coming From Behind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Finkler Question.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm Bradbury\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another's success...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Teachers, England\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780099452034\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jacobson, Howard","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.19","offer_id":48132534894769,"sku":"SB-0099452030-C3","price":1.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0099452030.jpg?v=1793667659","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/coming-from-behind-1","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}