{"product_id":"the-provost-9781474443616","title":"THE PROVOST","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e John Galt's memoir of his life in the Royal Borough of Irvine, Greenock, and London brings the background of many nineteenth-century novels into the foreground, offering a clear-eyed and funny context for our own time. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 30 June 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn numerous nineteenth-century novels, the hum of daily labor by house servants and the upward striving of local worthies can be heard in the background, with war often serving as the backdrop for many Jane Austen novels. John Galt, who lived between the prosperous Royal Borough of Irvine, the intensity of technological Greenock, and the politics of London, brought this background into the foreground in his memoir. Provost Pawkie's memoir of his life loops through the personal and political frustrations of small-town life lived in an increasingly global context, offering a clear-eyed and often funny context for our own time. Through his self-revealing narrator, Galt accomplishes a trenchant critique of the intrigue that is global politics when lived personally and locally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781474443616\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MCCRACKEN FLESH CAR","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44096238616826,"sku":"9781474443616","price":71.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/noImage_1_6d99dcc0-9df6-469e-aa01-e2cdfd4b80ac.jpg?v=1646832207","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/the-provost-9781474443616","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}