{"product_id":"a-thousand-pardons-8608","title":"A Thousand Pardons","description":"\u003cp\u003eBen and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point. Once a privileged and loving couple, widely envied and respected, it takes just one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeparated from her husband, Helen and her teenage daughter Sara leave their family home for Manhattan, where Helen must build a new life for them both. There, Helen takes a job in PR - her first in many years. Thrust back into the working world, Helen discovers she has a rare gift: she can convince arrogant men to admit their mistakes, spinning crises into second chances. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the same forgiveness she nurtures so successfully in her professional life is far harder to apply to her personal one. Faced with the fallout from her own marriage - her daughter's increasingly distant behaviour - Helen must finally confront her own capacity for forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Thousand Pardons\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant, audacious, gripping and sharply observed novel about a marriage in ruins and a family in crisis; about the limits of self-invention and the seduction of self-destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Jonathan Dee:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A deliciously sophisticated engine of literary darkness.' Jonathan Franzen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dee is graceful; articulate and perceptive, and often hilariously funny... full of elegance, vitality and complexity.' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The Privileges\u003c\/i\u003e is verbally brilliant, intellectually astute and intricately knowing. It is also very funny and a great, great pleasure to read. Jonathan Dee is a wonderful writer.' Richard Ford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The Privileges\u003c\/i\u003e is a pitch-perfect evocation of a particular stratum of New York society as well as a moving meditation on family and romantic love. The tour de force first chapter alone is worth the price of admission.' Jay McInerney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44786787156147,"sku":"9781472108524","price":719.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477301109781472108524.jpg?v=1762808397","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/a-thousand-pardons-8608","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}