{"product_id":"the-child-jules-valles-9781590171172","title":"The Child","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about growing up that is comparable in humor and humanity to \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e, even as its unflinching exposure of violence and hypocrisy foreshadows the nightmare realsim of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Jules Vallès, an anarchist and a bohemian, dedicated his book \"to all those who were bored stiff at school or reduced to tears at home, who in childhood were bullied by their teachers or thrashed by their parents,\" and it tells the (autobiographical) tale of a young boy constantly scapegoated and abused, emotionally and physically, by his peasant mother and schoolteacher father, whose greatest concern is to improve their social status. But the young hero learns to stand up to his parents, even to love them, in time, and for all the intense pain the book registers it is anything but dreary. To the contrary, Vallès's book is one of the funniest in French literature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy over the forces of order and the self-appointed defenders of decency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jules Valles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590171179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590171172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2006 pg. 652","brand":"Jules Valles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939841147135,"sku":"9781590171172","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e35ffb9f-a197-4c49-876b-03e50bca567e.jpg?v=1681443797","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-child-jules-valles-9781590171172","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}