{"product_id":"the-nowhere-city","title":"The Nowhere City","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are only 3 very minor gay\/lesbian characters in this novel. One of them is me (\"Peter Thorsby\"--the bitch!), and the other two were my colleagues in the English Dept. when this novel was written. Not one of her best, but entertaining, in a bitchy sort of way. The other gay male is \"Rudie Habenicht\" and the lesbian is \"Florrie Ridley, \" who send an illiterate fan letter. I don't mean to imply that Alison Lurie is a homophobe--she has merely a mean streak, and she used these allusions to get back at people who she may have thought did not treat her or her husband properly in the UCLA English Dept. Her husband was fired at the end of his third year--but we (gay\/lesbian) faculty members had nothing to do with that. She simply did not like UCLA. She is much meaner to Neal Oxenhandler (\"Paul Cattleman, \" in the novel), a professor of French who professed to be completely at a loss to explain her malice. She doesn't make him gay, however.--Peter Thorslev.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/alison-lurie-books\"\u003eAlison Lurie\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780140042092\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £2.02","offer_id":47909142626481,"sku":"SB-0140042091-C4","price":2.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0140042091.jpg?v=1789204859","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-nowhere-city","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}