Jerusalem The Golden
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A young woman's hunger for beauty, sophistication, and escape drives one of post-war British fiction's most compelling narratives. Jerusalem the Golden follows Clara Maugham, a sharp and ambitious girl from a cold, repressive Northern English town, who wins a scholarship to London and discovers a glittering world of culture, warmth, and intellectual life she had never dared imagine. Through her obsessive fascination with the glamorous Denham family — their effortless charm, their artistic circle, and their bohemian freedoms — Clara begins a journey into a life she is determined to claim as her own, whatever the moral cost. Margaret Drabble writes with scalpel-like precision about class, desire, and the transformation of identity in 1960s Britain, capturing the precise moment when a generation of women began to reach beyond the lives prescribed for them. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this novel stands as one of Drabble's finest achievements — a work that chronicles the seductive pull of a world just out of reach and asks how far one is willing to go to seize it. Readers who finish the final page will find Clara's quiet, ruthless hunger lingering long after the book is closed.
Author: Margaret Drabble
Format: Paperback
Published: 1969, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A young woman's hunger for beauty, sophistication, and escape drives one of post-war British fiction's most compelling narratives. Jerusalem the Golden follows Clara Maugham, a sharp and ambitious girl from a cold, repressive Northern English town, who wins a scholarship to London and discovers a glittering world of culture, warmth, and intellectual life she had never dared imagine. Through her obsessive fascination with the glamorous Denham family — their effortless charm, their artistic circle, and their bohemian freedoms — Clara begins a journey into a life she is determined to claim as her own, whatever the moral cost. Margaret Drabble writes with scalpel-like precision about class, desire, and the transformation of identity in 1960s Britain, capturing the precise moment when a generation of women began to reach beyond the lives prescribed for them. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this novel stands as one of Drabble's finest achievements — a work that chronicles the seductive pull of a world just out of reach and asks how far one is willing to go to seize it. Readers who finish the final page will find Clara's quiet, ruthless hunger lingering long after the book is closed.