{"product_id":"surveillance-a-novel","title":"Jonathan Raban: Surveillance [2007] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a brave new post-9\/11 world jumpy Seattle bears little resemblance to the city Lucy Bengstrom dreamed of as a girl. Living alone with her eleven-year-old daughter Alida, she looks to her journalism to make sense of it all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet with Alida drifting into adolescence and the home she's built up for them under threat, it's clear to Lucy that life is changing. Finding herself under intense scrutiny and faced with her toughest assignment yet, she begins to rebel against everything her personal and professional life has taught her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Chastening and darkly funny . . . For all its gloomy prognostications on the way society is heading, \u003ci\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/i\u003e will only leave you wanting more' Anthony Quinn, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003ci\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/i\u003e is a work that confirms Raban as one of the most original commentators on the times in which we live' William Skidelsky, \u003ci\u003e New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A dense human comedy about truth and lies . . . He writes easily, his prose is relaxed, conversational, his observations shrewd . . . \u003ci\u003e Surveillance\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel for and about a US in which everyone wants to be American and in which security is the new terror. Raban's offbeat narrative is a cautionary one dealing with the upheaval of the crisis known as Now' Eileen Battersby, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raban, Jonathan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50549780676947,"sku":"9780330418393","price":11.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47051459854675,"sku":"XG80330418393","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":52580192682323,"sku":"XE80330418393","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/raban-jonathan-jonathan-raban-surveillance-2007-paperback-1145883075.jpg?v=1765647199","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/surveillance-a-novel","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}