{"product_id":"2026200015538-secondhand-look-back-in-anger","title":"Look Back In Anger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the cramped, suffocating confines of a Midlands bedsit, Look Back in Anger unleashes Jimmy Porter — one of British theatre's most explosive and unforgettable protagonists — upon the world, his volcanic resentment and razor-sharp wit tearing through the polite facades of post-war English society. John Osborne's landmark 1956 play chronicles the turbulent marriage between the working-class Jimmy and his upper-middle-class wife Alison, a relationship defined by passionate cruelty, class antagonism, and a desperate hunger for meaning in an age that has left its young men without purpose or glory.\n\nA seismic moment in twentieth-century drama, Look Back in Anger single-handedly ignited the Angry Young Men movement and irrevocably transformed the British stage, sweeping away the drawing-room comedies of the post-war era and replacing them with raw, confrontational realism. Osborne's dialogue crackles with savage intelligence, and his portrayal of frustrated idealism — of a generation caught between a vanished empire and an uncertain future — resonates with a haunting universality that has never dimmed. Will Jimmy Porter's rage ultimately consume everything he loves, or does it mask a grief too profound to name?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203208814811,"sku":"2026200015538-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4189f4ce-88ea-422e-9581-253554d6bd4f.png?v=1788145778","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015538-secondhand-look-back-in-anger","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}