{"product_id":"the-english-understand-wool","title":"The English Understand Wool","description":"Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton (\"bad taste\" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge's, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite, so that the necessary hours of practice will not be inflicted on fellow guests.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e One should cultivate weavers of tweed in the Outer Hebrides but have the cloth made up in London; one should buy linen in Ireland but have it made up by a Thai seamstress in Paris (whose genius has been supported by purchase of suitable premises). All this and much more she has learned, governed by a parent of ferociously lofty standards. But at 17, during the annual Ramadan travels, she finds all assumptions overturned.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Will she be able to fend for herself? Will the dictates of good taste suffice when she must deal, singlehanded, with the sharks of New York?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished: USA, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: New Directions\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguages: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 64\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 13: 9780811230070\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 10: 0811230074\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Helen DeWiitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44665921667338,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780811230070.jpg?v=1692186970","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-english-understand-wool","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}