{"product_id":"time-must-have-a-stop-dalkey-essentials","title":"Time Must Have a Stop (Dalkey Essentials)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Brave New World comes the story of Sebastian Barnack, a naive young poet on holiday with his uncle in Florence—where his real education begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst his father’s wishes, Sebastian visits his uncle in Italy with the objective of finding formal wear, but stumbles into so much more than a shopping trip. Among other adventures, he embarks upon his first love affair with an older woman; inherits, sells, then steals a Dégas painting; attends a botched séance; and incurs the wrath of the Italian Fascisti. As always with Huxley’s fiction, a genuine novel-of-ideas lurks just beneath the satirical surface, as Sebastian’s heart is torn between two competing philosophies: the hedonistic materialism embodied by his uncle Eustace and the spiritual wisdom of his uncle Bruno.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel that Huxley himself thought was his most successful at \"fusing idea with story,\" Time Must Have a Stop is part of Huxley's lifelong attempt to explore the dilemmas of twentieth-century persons and to create characters who, though ill-equipped to solve those dilemmas, all go stumbling on in their painfully serious comedies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucky's Books and Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48055832510595,"sku":"9781628976632","price":29.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/3795\/6483\/files\/9781628976632.jpg?v=1788299241","url":"https:\/\/luckys.ca\/products\/time-must-have-a-stop-dalkey-essentials","provider":"Lucky's Books and Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}