{"product_id":"2026200008809-secondhand-the-puzzleheaded-girl","title":"The Puzzleheaded Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of twentieth-century fiction, The Puzzleheaded Girl presents four novellas by the acclaimed Australian author Christina Stead, each chronicling the lives of women who exist on the fringes of society, driven by their own inscrutable inner logic. The title novella introduces Honor Lawrence, a peculiar, otherworldly young woman who unsettles the comfortable lives of those around her, embodying a kind of radical, passive resistance to social convention. Stead writes with her characteristic sharp wit and psychological precision, unmasking the hypocrisies and unspoken desires that lie beneath the surface of bourgeois American life. These four tales, set largely in New York, illustrate Stead's extraordinary gift for capturing the textures of ordinary existence while charging them with moral and emotional complexity. Published under the celebrated Virago Modern Classics imprint, this collection stands as essential reading for anyone seeking to understand one of the most original literary voices of the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956430647515,"sku":"2026200008809-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d6db9577-11b3-4bb2-a70b-6245dbeeb915.png?v=1783500947","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200008809-secondhand-the-puzzleheaded-girl","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}