{"product_id":"9781917788328","title":"Beastly Transparencies","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBurns,  James Roderick\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBlack Spring Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4\/20\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative literary portrait of Anthony Comstock’s six-decade war on vice, alongside twenty stories probing class, obsession, morality and the price of trying to live a “good” life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeastly Transparencies explores class and obsession across both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The title novella dramatizes the life of noted anti-vice campaigner Anthony Comstock. Charting his grand work against the explosion of pornography, prostitution and underground gambling starting in the 1860s – from circulating smut libraries to obscene early film, illicit rubber articles intercepted in the mail to numbers games and religious cons backed by violence – ‘Beastly Transparencies’ tracks Comstock and his New York Society for the Prevention of Vice through a six-decade crusade against sin. The twenty accompanying stories move between northern England and the north east of America, following divergent paths but exploring similar themes: what motivates the heart, and what the head? Which forces shape the moral beings we become? How – and at whose unseen hand – do we slide up or down the slippery pole of virtue? Beastly Transparencies takes as its starting point a question shared with Sillitoe: in the endless grind of life, love and commerce, what does it really mean to win?","brand":"Black Spring Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49278952800511,"sku":"9781917788328","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781917788328","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}