{"product_id":"sentiment-vincent-osullivan-9781910146156","title":"Sentiment","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"In what a midnight his soul seems to walk! and what maladies he draws from the moon!\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eVincent O'Sullivan looks inside the lives of a group of middle-class English people just before the start of the first world war. The story centres around the love affairs of four young people and how they interact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO'Sullivan picks apart his characters' cares and concerns and shows how these are trivial when we know what was about to happen to them and their world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eSentiment\u003c\/i\u003e, Vincent O'Sullivan performs the neatest job of skinning his characters alive that I ever saw. He has written a book too delicate in its surgery to be called satire, about some people-who as it were-fall in love. There are all sorts of opportunities to stab them, but his knife cuts lightly and swiftly and gently, just under the surface hardly hurting them!\" \u003ci\u003eThe Liberator\u003c\/i\u003e, March 1918\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born into a prosperous Irish American family in New York and moved to London as a child. However, Vincent spent much of his life in the demi-monde world that is the setting of many of his stories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile living in Paris, O'Sullivan was friends with Oscar Wilde, Leonard Smithers, Aubrey Beardsley and other members of the Aesthetic movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe writer Robert Aickman wrote of O'Sullivan that: \"Having lived a longish life as a more or less well-to-do rentier, in latish middle age found himself ruined, wrote his last book under terrible conditions, and, dying in Paris, ended anonymously in the common pit for the cadavers of paupers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vincent O'Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1910146153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910146156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Solis Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.30d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vincent O'Sullivan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486269812991,"sku":"9781910146156","price":11.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1dc9aaea-9206-48a5-b096-5e97258e97ea.jpg?v=1778054641","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sentiment-vincent-osullivan-9781910146156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}