{"product_id":"the-hypocrite-hardcover","title":"The Hypocrite - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJo Hamya\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation's Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father's fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter's voice. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sharp book, beautifully written. Jo Hamya poses complex questions--about art and ethics, family life and sexual mores--and withholds from her reader any easy answers.\" --Rumaan Alam, author of \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEntitlement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sharp, witty and astute about parents and children, but never cruel; I enjoyed it hugely.\" --David Nicholls, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Day \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eYou Are Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAugust 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father's verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven't aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might have hoped, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. Sophia's play has been met with rave reviews, but her father has studiously avoided reading any of them. When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet through one staging of the play, \u003ci\u003eThe Hypocrite\u003c\/i\u003e seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJO HAMYA\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThree Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at King's College London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 10.47 x 5.84 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53713694523756,"sku":"9780593701034","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/3019\/6844\/files\/9c10b259ea5dc40dc898b0dd1846780a.webp?v=1778082216","url":"https:\/\/pattansenterprise.com\/products\/the-hypocrite-hardcover","provider":"Pattansenterprise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}