{"product_id":"testimonies-patrick-obrian-9780393313161","title":"Testimonies","description":"Delmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel \u003cem\u003eTestimonies\u003c\/em\u003e: \"A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself.\" Schwartz' imagination was fired by this sinister tale of love and death set in Wales, a timeless story with echoes of Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Pugh, sick of Oxford and of teaching, decides to take some time off to live in a wild and beautiful Welsh farm valley. There he falls physically ill and is nursed back to health by Bronwen Vaughn, the wife of a neighboring farmer. Slowly, unwillingly, Bronwen and Pugh fall in love;' and while that word is never spoken between them, their story is as passionate and as tragic as that of Vronsky and Anna Karenina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick O'Brien, Patrick O'Brian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393313166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393313161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.33h x 5.40w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/27\/1995 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/19\/1995","brand":"Patrick O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987305726207,"sku":"9780393313161","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ed0c78b-1d08-4de5-a129-9545e533f3f7.jpg?v=1683288193","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/testimonies-patrick-obrian-9780393313161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}