{"product_id":"book-29sc","title":"Greville Fane","description":"Greville Fane: Henry James's Deliciously Barbed Revenge on the Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when literature's most exacting craftsman turns his gaze on a novelist who churns out three potboilers a year without a moment's reflection? You get \"Greville Fane,\" one of Henry James's slyest and most wickedly funny tales-a story that smiles politely while sharpening its knives.\u003cbr\u003eOn the surface, \"Greville Fane\" presents a story of sour relationships between a writer and her children. Mrs. Stormer, who publishes under the grand masculine pseudonym Greville Fane, is a warm, generous, utterly untalented woman who writes romantic fluff at industrial speed-and sells it by the cartload. Her reward? Two monstrously ungrateful children who bleed her dry while sneering at the very work that funds their pretensions. It's a domestic tragedy told with a comedian's timing, narrated by a fellow writer who genuinely likes the woman even as he winces at every sentence she produces.\u003cbr\u003e\"Greville Fane\" is that resentment transmuted into art: a send-up of light literature written by a genius who watched lesser writers get rich. The joke, of course, is exquisitely Jamesian-Mrs. Stormer, who never thinks about her craft, is beloved and solvent; the narrator, who thinks of nothing else, is neither. James skewers the marketplace, the reading public, and perhaps, just a little, himself. It's petty, it's brilliant, and it's one of the most entertaining things he ever wrote. Read it and decide: is it satire, confession, or both?\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gardner's resonant and intelligent voice perfectly embodies the character of the narrator.","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67407712583984,"sku":"BD29sc","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/29sc-Square-cover.jpg?v=1785196612","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-29sc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}