{"product_id":"out-of-the-pit","title":"Out of the Pit","description":"286 pp. A novel of \"British proletarian realism\" about a British miner and a worker's strike. \"'Pit ruins you for any other job unless you're real bright or just bloody stupid.' Dave Stand is neither real bright nor bloody stupid. He is a young miner, sensitive beyond the ordinary, who like many others looks for personal meaning in his work, and fails bitterly to find it. Dave gets a part in a documentary film to be made at the Pit where he works; his life is at once intensified and complicated. He sees on the one hand the alien \"liberating\" world of the film men; on the other, Tandy Collins and his fellow workers in a nationalized mine. He is forced to choose between them; and his choice is made no easier by his relationship with Phyllida Markahm, for whose loveliness the town is a prison in which she stays to look after an invalid and disillusioned father. Dave's love-story, at once idyllic and realistic, is the main thread of a novel presenting the problems of a tough, kindly, humorous people at a time when a strike forces crisis: a very sympathetic and convincing study of the warmth and bitterness that unite a mining community against the world outside.\"","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39402443309126,"sku":"2314230","price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2314230.jpg?v=1627493543","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/out-of-the-pit","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}