{"product_id":"soldiers-pay-1","title":"Soldier's Pay","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"79\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wounded soldier returns home to a world that no longer fits.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"745\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eWilliam Faulkner’s \u003cem data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"115\"\u003eSoldier’s Pay\u003c\/em\u003e follows Donald Mahon, a gravely injured World War I pilot, as he returns to his Southern hometown to find that peace has brought no salvation. His homecoming exposes the moral and emotional decay beneath small-town respectability, where compassion mingles uneasily with vanity and denial. Through luminous prose and shifting perspectives, Faulkner captures a generation haunted by loss and struggling to rebuild meaning from the wreckage of war. Both tender and unsparing, \u003cem data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"604\"\u003eSoldier’s Pay\u003c\/em\u003e marks the emergence of a major literary voice and the birth of Faulkner’s enduring themes of memory, guilt, and the tragic cost of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carlini Classics","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":50380599394608,"sku":"9612921002332","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/soldiers-pay-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}