{"product_id":"the-jealous-god","title":"The Jealous God","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty-year-old virgin Vincent Dungarvan is a schoolmaster whose mother desperately wishes him to become a Roman Catholic Priest. But on meeting Laura - intelligent, warm and erotically attractive - Vincent becomes torn between his intended vocation and a passionate desire to marry her. This is a powerful and deeply moving tale of divine calling versus mortal desire.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBradford-born John Braine ranks alongside Kingsley Amis, John Osborne and Allan Sillitoe as one of the so-called Angry Young Men of the 1950s, whose literature was a protest against class distinctions and middle-class manners. His first novel, Room at the Top, was an overnight success and has been made into a highly successful film, which won two Oscars.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e'A subtle study of love and sex' (Saturday Review)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'...real anguish of mind and a new subtlety in the treatment of human relationships' (The Guardian)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'In this novel more than any other Braine shows that he know what men - and women - are like' (The Daily Telegraph)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'It is perfectly done...worked up to a compelling climax admirably prepared for' (Evening Standard)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263963578662,"sku":"H5APJIZG","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/35961085-133c-4060-ae28-787a1acc1d61.jpg?v=1701089750","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/the-jealous-god","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}