{"product_id":"the-child","title":"The Child","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about growing up that is comparable in humor and humanity to  \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e, even as its unflinching exposure of violence and hypocrisy foreshadows  the nightmare realsim of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Jules Vallès, an anarchist and a  bohemian, dedicated his book \"to all those who were bored stiff at school or reduced  to tears at home, who in childhood were bullied by their teachers or thrashed by  their parents,\" and it tells the (autobiographical) tale of a young boy constantly  scapegoated and abused, emotionally and physically, by his peasant mother and schoolteacher  father, whose greatest concern is to improve their social status. But the young hero  learns to stand up to his parents, even to love them, in time, and for all the intense  pain the book registers it is anything but dreary. To the contrary, Vallès’s book  is one of the funniest in French literature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy over  the forces of order and the self-appointed defenders of decency.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50964555596064,"sku":"9781590171172","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781590171172.jpg?v=1764028357","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/the-child","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}