{"product_id":"cards-of-identity","title":"Cards of Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Formerly, he thinks to himself, an artist took real people and transformed them into painted ones: how much finer and more satisfying is the modern method of assuming that people are not real at all, only self-painted, and of proceeding to make them real by giving them new selves based on the best-available theories of human nature...'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Nigel Dennis's 1955 novel - instantly acclaimed as a satirical masterpiece - a long-empty country house is reopened by Captain Mallet, his wife, and his dashing son Beaufort. Their task is to prepare for the annual summer conference of 'The Identity Club': a group of psychologists firmly of the view that people can be instructed as to who they really are and, consequently, persuaded to do well-nigh anything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I have read no novel published during the last fifteen years with greater pleasure and admiration.' W.H. Auden, 1955\u003cbr\u003e  'One of the funniest, most intelligent and far-reaching pieces of satire.' Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258362417496,"sku":"9780571259694","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571259694_26a8f0ca-3969-4729-be4d-b2ead4cb890d.jpg?v=1765957541","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cards-of-identity","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}