{"product_id":"the-young-desire-it-text-classics","title":"The Young Desire It: Text Classics","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the late afternoon of a day  in February, that hottestof Australian summer months, when a brutal sun  stoodbronze above the river flats which you may see fromthe dormitory  windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother,  walking from the railway stationto the gates by a private path across a  burnt, untidy field,overhung with Cape lilacs that still drooped,  dusty andmelancholy...In the lower part of his belly fear kicked and  pulsed like a child in the womb, ready to be born.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fifteen-year-old Charles Fox is sent  away to boarding school, innocent, alone and afraid. There one of his  masters develops an intense attachment to him. But when Charles  meetsMargaret,a girl staying at a nearby farm for the holidays, he is  besotted, and a passionate, unforgettable romance begins.\u003cbr\u003e Published in London in 1937 to wide acclaim,\u003ci\u003eThe Young Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt\u003c\/i\u003eis  a stunning debut novel about coming of age: an intimate and lyrical  account of first love, anda rich evocation of rural Western Australia.Itwon theAustralian Literature SocietyGold Medal, and is nowback in print as a Text Classic with a new introduction by David Malouf.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A hymn to youth, to life, to sexual freedom and moral independence.'                 - David Malouf\u003cbr\u003e 'A book to set beside James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e...The  best novel I've read in a long, long time...One of the great stories of  first love...Why isn't this stunning novel famous?' - Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kenneth Mackenzie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516771172413,"sku":null,"price":14.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925355352.jpg?v=1787572637","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-young-desire-it-text-classics","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}