{"product_id":"2026100007461-secondhand-the-exiles","title":"The Exiles","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA haunting meditation on displacement and identity, The Exiles follows a group of American expatriates adrift in post-war Europe, their lives unraveling against a backdrop of cultural dislocation and psychological estrangement. Albert J. Guerard — himself a distinguished literary critic and Stanford professor — channels his intimate knowledge of the European intellectual milieu into a narrative that chronicles the quiet disintegration of men and women who no longer belong anywhere, suspended between the world they abandoned and one that will never fully receive them.\n\nGuerard's prose is precise and psychologically penetrating, bearing the unmistakable influence of Conrad and Gide — authors he spent a lifetime studying — and The Exiles stands as a testament to his belief that fiction must confront the darker architecture of the human psyche. Rich with moral ambiguity and rendered with an unsentimental eye, this novel argues that exile is not merely a geographic condition but a permanent state of the soul. For readers drawn to the tradition of Henry James and the existential weight of mid-century modernism, this is a work that lingers long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130997907675,"sku":"2026100007461-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/74e31031-7974-4350-919c-85f8bf06f41b.png?v=1786594097","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007461-secondhand-the-exiles","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}