{"product_id":"2026600000610-secondhand-daniel-martin","title":"Daniel Martin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing         ,          price clipped\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping literary novel of self-examination and identity, Daniel Martin chronicles the life of a successful British screenwriter who, after being summoned to the deathbed of an old Oxford friend, is forced to confront the compromises, lost loves, and fractured ideals that have quietly shaped his existence. Fowles constructs a richly layered narrative that moves fluidly between Daniel's glamorous but hollow Hollywood present and the formative landscapes of his English past, weaving together memory, desire, and regret with extraordinary psychological depth. The novel argues, with quiet but insistent force, that authenticity — in art, in love, and in selfhood — demands a reckoning with everything one has chosen to abandon or ignore. Written in a tone that is both intellectually rigorous and deeply intimate, it stands as one of the most ambitious works of postwar British fiction, presenting a portrait of a man — and a generation — caught between the seductions of modernity and the pull of a more honest, rooted life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48755501105371,"sku":"2026600000610-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0fc55fcc-00b5-4b00-9fa6-1e01f2add895.png?v=1778221214","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000610-secondhand-daniel-martin","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}