{"product_id":"2026100010741-secondhand-the-graduate","title":"The Graduate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Braddock has just graduated from college, and the world — gilded with expectation and hollow with meaninglessness — is waiting for him. Charles Webb's The Graduate chronicles the restless drift of a young man trapped between the comfortable suburban life his parents have mapped out for him and an affair with the seductive, world-weary Mrs. Robinson, a liaison that pulls him deeper into moral ambiguity and emotional paralysis. Sharp, darkly comic, and quietly subversive, the novel captures the suffocating weight of mid-century American conformity with devastating precision.\n\nWebb's prose is deceptively spare, allowing the absurdity and pathos of Benjamin's predicament to surface through clipped, pitch-perfect dialogue and a relentless forward momentum that mirrors its protagonist's own confused urgency. First published in 1963, The Graduate became a landmark of American fiction — and the basis for Mike Nichols' iconic 1967 film — standing as an enduring indictment of a generation sold a dream it never quite believed in. Will Benjamin find the courage to chase what he truly wants, or will he remain forever suspended between someone else's future and his own?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50609695359195,"sku":"2026100010741-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/40a8ba93-6eb6-4667-ab63-352cf722965c.png?v=1791764674","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010741-secondhand-the-graduate","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}