{"product_id":"early-autumn-a-story-of-a-lady","title":"Early Autumn A Story of a Lady","description":"A Compelling Pulitzer Prize-Winning Saga of a Family's Fall from Power\u003cp\u003e\"TRULY LOVELY\" -Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor generations, the proud Pentland family name meant wealth, class, and status. In the years following the first World War, however, change was in the air, with numerous nouveaux-riches pretenders challenging the privileged family's position as an arbiter of values and class. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrong-willed Olivia Pentland-wife of Anson, the cold and distant heir to the family fortune-endures a tedious life largely devoid of joy or passion. Trapped in a stifling marriage, Olivia must examine her conscience and choose between the sudden thrill and lure of new love and the heavy tug of traditional family duty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extravagant debutante party at the Pentland estate for next-generation Sybil and Sabine opens a dramatic window into the façade the family maintains and becomes a catalyst for fracturing the perquisites they've all grown accustomed to. In the weeks that follow, relationships are tested, decorum and privilege challenged, and several carefully guarded family secrets unearthed in a cascading series of events which irrevocably upends their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Louis Bromfield's witty and satirical epic evokes a keen insight into human nature and a powerful appreciation of the natural world. In unmasking the rigid and puritanical, class-based New England mores as the veneer to a lifestyle with little meaning, Bromfield sets the stage for a wholly new social contract. A reading of Early Autumn is an indelible experience you won't want to miss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is also available from Echo Point Books as a hardcover (ISBN 1648371736).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48960344064255,"sku":"*R0154986*","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/24535993482774.jpg?v=1786043335","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/early-autumn-a-story-of-a-lady","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}