{"product_id":"hopeful-monsters-nicholas-mosley-9781628975741","title":"Hopeful Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThirty-five years after its original publication, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHopeful Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e reemerges as one of the \"grand intellectual dramas\" of the 20th century (--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping, comprehensive epic, \u003cem\u003eHopeful Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student studying physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jew and political radical. Together, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual movements which shape the twentieth-century, taking them from Cambridge and Berlin to the Spanish Civil War, Russia, the Sahara, and finally to Los Alamos to witness the first nuclear test. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published as the culminating volume of a series of five works of fiction entitled \"Catastrophe Practice\" that \u003cem\u003eThe Chicago Tribune \u003c\/em\u003ecalled \"one of the most important extended literary projects of [the 20th] century,\" \u003cem\u003eHopeful Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e is the first reissue in a new Dalkey Archive initiative to bring Mosley's epistolary genius back into circulation for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Mosley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1628975741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628975741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Nicholas Mosley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637269119231,"sku":"9781628975741","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e829ca0-4dd4-4152-876e-d3f8a93b583a.jpg?v=1765115091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hopeful-monsters-nicholas-mosley-9781628975741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}