{"product_id":"2026600000557-secondhand-black-dogs","title":"Black Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Light glue residue on endpapers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA haunting work of literary fiction, Black Dogs chronicles the fractured relationship between Bernard and June Tremaine through the eyes of their son-in-law, Jeremy, who is piecing together the story of their lives decades after a pivotal encounter in post-war France. Ian McEwan constructs a meditation on faith, reason, and the enduring scars of history, using the couple's ideological estrangement — Bernard's committed rationalism against June's turn toward mysticism — as a lens through which to examine the great moral catastrophes of the twentieth century. The novel's atmosphere is one of quiet dread and intellectual intensity, anchored by a central, unforgettable episode in which June confronts two menacing black dogs on a remote road in the Languedoc, an event that comes to define the rest of her life. McEwan argues, with characteristic precision and psychological depth, that the darkness humans encounter — whether political, spiritual, or personal — cannot be fully explained by either science or faith alone. Spare, luminous, and deeply unsettling, Black Dogs stands as one of McEwan's most philosophically ambitious works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792284856539,"sku":"2026600000557-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c64dc087-4d5e-43d9-9fd0-f7ba759fdf53.png?v=1779274640","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000557-secondhand-black-dogs","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}