{"product_id":"a-cab-at-the-door-midnight-oil-9780812991833","title":"A Cab at the Door \u0026 Midnight Oil","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Cab at the Door \u0026amp; Midnight Oil\u003c\/strong\u003e by Pritchett, V. S. S.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780812991833.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo enchanting memoirs from V. S. Pritchett, available for the first time in a single volume\n\nA Cab at the Door, originally published in 1968, recalls his childhood in turn-of-the-century and World War I London with the urbane subtlety and wry humor that have marked his other works. For the wild and eccentric Pritchett family, life is a series of cabs waiting at the door to transport them to a succession of ten-bob-a-week lodgings, in their flight from creditors and the financial disasters of their father. A Cab at the Door also captures the texture and color of the working-class side of Edwardian England.\n\nMidnight Oil (which Wilfrid Sheed called a “little Rolls Royce of a book” when it came out in 1972) opens in 1921: Pritchett arrives in Paris to commence with a literary career. Gradually, his creative sensibilities emerge as he travels as a reporter to Ireland, Spain, and America. Midnight Oil provides an intimate and precise record of a writers discovery of himself and his art. “Pritchett is one of the great pleasure-givers in our language,” said Eudora Welty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977572184117,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812991834","price":58.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812991833_beeaa135-652d-47e6-859a-abbaba88829b.jpg?v=1778628713","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-cab-at-the-door-midnight-oil-9780812991833","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}