{"product_id":"the-orchid-trilogy-by-jocelyn-brooke-used","title":"The Orchid Trilogy by Jocelyn Brooke (Used)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA disarming, lyrical hybrid of fiction and autobiography, this forgotten masterpiece of post-war English fiction follows a small boy through his First World War childhood and teenage years on the Kentish coast, then into the army and frontline service in the Second World War.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eObsessed by his strange twin passions for orchids and for fireworks, the author-narrator paints a haunting portrait of a childhood and adulthood interleaved with one another in a near-mystical rural idyll. Defined by his unspoken homosexuality, the books capture the unfolding of a melancholy, often painfully sensitive male consciousness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in the late 1940s as three separate but interlinked volumes - \"The Military Orchid\"; \"A Mine of Serpents\" and \"The Goose Cathedral\" - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Orchid Trilogy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econjures up a rapturous, fantastical portrait of England at war and peace in the 20th century. Witty, subtle and deceptively simple, this unjustly neglected classic that has yet to be surpassed in its exploration of the magical world of childhood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition: Good \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bridge Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47368189739266,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/2231851.jpg?v=1771241725","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/the-orchid-trilogy-by-jocelyn-brooke-used","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}