Jerusalem The Golden
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Clara Maugham, a girl forged in the cold, repressive furnace of a northern English provincial town, arrives in London determined to reinvent herself — and in Jerusalem the Golden, Margaret Drabble chronicles her dazzling, desperate ascent into a world of culture, beauty, and bohemian sophistication. Set against the vivid contrasts of post-war Britain, the novel presents a young woman intoxicated by the glamour of the Denham family — their warmth, their art, their effortless London grace — as she pursues a love affair that promises escape but threatens to unravel her carefully constructed new self. Drabble writes with a cool, precise intelligence, dissecting the class anxieties and ambitions of 1960s Britain with the sharpness of a scalpel. Jerusalem the Golden, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, stands as one of the defining novels of its era, illustrating the tension between a woman's hunger for self-determination and the seductive pull of a world not her own. Drabble's prose is elegant yet unsparing, and her portrait of Clara — brilliant, calculating, and achingly human — leaves the reader asking whether the golden city she seeks was ever truly within reach.
Author: Margaret Drabble
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Clara Maugham, a girl forged in the cold, repressive furnace of a northern English provincial town, arrives in London determined to reinvent herself — and in Jerusalem the Golden, Margaret Drabble chronicles her dazzling, desperate ascent into a world of culture, beauty, and bohemian sophistication. Set against the vivid contrasts of post-war Britain, the novel presents a young woman intoxicated by the glamour of the Denham family — their warmth, their art, their effortless London grace — as she pursues a love affair that promises escape but threatens to unravel her carefully constructed new self. Drabble writes with a cool, precise intelligence, dissecting the class anxieties and ambitions of 1960s Britain with the sharpness of a scalpel. Jerusalem the Golden, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, stands as one of the defining novels of its era, illustrating the tension between a woman's hunger for self-determination and the seductive pull of a world not her own. Drabble's prose is elegant yet unsparing, and her portrait of Clara — brilliant, calculating, and achingly human — leaves the reader asking whether the golden city she seeks was ever truly within reach.