{"product_id":"2026100011259-secondhand-born-with-the-century","title":"Born With The Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: slight lean to book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the gilded excess of the Gilded Age to the smoke-filled back rooms of mid-century American power, Born with the Century chronicles the sweeping life of a man whose fate is inextricably bound to the turbulent rise of modern America. William Kinsolving's ambitious saga follows its protagonist from birth at the dawn of the twentieth century through decades of triumph, scandal, and reinvention, placing him at the epicentre of the seismic forces — war, wealth, ambition, and moral compromise — that would come to define an era. The novel unfolds with the grandeur of a classic American epic, painting a vivid portrait of a society in constant flux, where fortunes are made and unmade overnight and the cost of success is measured in deeply personal terms.\n\nKinsolving writes with a confident, cinematic sweep, marshalling historical detail with novelistic flair to produce a narrative that is as much a meditation on American identity as it is a gripping human drama. The broad canvas of the twentieth century serves as both backdrop and antagonist, shaping and testing a character whose very existence mirrors the contradictions of the nation around him. Readers who relish the tradition of Dos Passos or Dreiser — novels in which a single life becomes a lens through which an entire civilisation is examined — will find Born with the Century a richly rewarding and thought-provoking journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573182828763,"sku":"2026100011259-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c5103d22-5978-4ee1-aaeb-0697473665ef.png?v=1791167814","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011259-secondhand-born-with-the-century","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}