{"product_id":"reuben-sachs","title":"Reuben Sachs","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\" style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/Reuben_restaurant.png?v=1593033635\u0026amp;width=700\" style=\"float: none;\" width=\"480x480\" height=\"480x480\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"redtext\"\u003ePREFACE BY JULIA NEUBERGER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e176pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155127\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Its directness, its uncompromising truths, its depth of feeling, and above all, its absence of any single superfluous word, make \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReuben Sachs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, in some sort, a classic.'\u003cbr\u003e- Oscar Wilde\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Persephone Books edition of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReuben Sachs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the first to appear in Britain since its original publication in 1888. It is about a couple who love each other, but his political ambitions demand money and she is poor, and would be a fairly standard late-Victorian novel about the cruelty of the marriage market if it were not imbued with feminist polemic: author Amy Levy was sharply critical of the empty lives led by women with nothing to do all day except gossip, play cards and go shopping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe setting is the Anglo-Jewish community in Bayswater in west London, portrayed with a sardonic gaze that shocked contemporary readers. Yet the author's theme was broader, for she was in part reacting against \u003cem\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/em\u003e: she believed that George Eliot had romanticised her Jewish characters and that no novelist had yet described the modern Jew with 'his surprising virtues and no less surprising vices.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Neuberger writes in her Preface, 'This is a novel about women, and Jewish women, about families, and Jewish families, about snobbishness, and Jewish snobbishness'; while in the \u003cem\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e Lisa Allardice said: 'Sadder but no less sparkling than \u003cem\u003eMiss Pettigrew\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReuben Sachs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is another forgotten classic by an accomplished female novelist. Amy Levy might be described as a Jewish Jane Austen.' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eSince the theme is marriage as a financial and social construct, and since the tone is heavily ironic, we chose an 1888 cotton velveteen called 'Orange Blossom' (the flower traditionally carried by a bride) in sombre colours. It was designed by Lewis Foreman Day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amy Levy","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098752766259,"sku":"uid1789694407890","price":24.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098752799027,"sku":"uph1789694407891","price":30.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098752831795,"sku":"gmm1789694407892","price":34.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098752864563,"sku":"rwb1789694407893","price":40.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/reuben-sachs_1.jpg?v=1789694413","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/reuben-sachs","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}