{"product_id":"travelling-people","title":"Travelling People","description":"His first novel, \u003cem\u003eTravelling People\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Gregory Award for 1963. In a preface to the book, he wrote, \"I decided that one style for one novel was a convention I resented most strongly: it was perhaps comparable to eating a meal in which each course had been cooked in the same manner. The style of each chapter should spring naturally from its subject matter.\" Thus \u003cem\u003eTravelling People \u003c\/em\u003eemploys eight separate styles for its nine chapters, including a letter, journal extracts, and a film script. One chapter contains the interior monologue of an old man prone to heart attacks. First the author uses a random grey pattern to indicate sleep or recuperative unconsciousness, and then later, black, when the old man dies. (Most obvious is Johnsons acknowledged debt to an eighteenth-century predecessor, Laurence Sterne, whose celebrated Tristam Shandy also contained black pages.)","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263719850278,"sku":"1BFMR7Y4","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/485df390-b2e2-4229-b113-e37a2cf640b7.jpg?v=1701084185","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/travelling-people","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}