{"product_id":"poor-cow-9781965028100","title":"Poor Cow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young woman makes a precarious living among feckless men, crime, and poverty in this best-selling 1960s novel of friendship, sex, and the exhilaration of self-invention\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoy is twenty-one when she has her first kid, and twenty-two when her husband Tom is arrested for stealing a car. Tom is a thief in the way other husbands are plumbers, mechanics, or mailmen; the couple is perpetually broke, except when Tom comes home and pours money on the bed, and then Joy goes on shopping binges and pushes baby Jonny around in a posh pram. But Joy knows it’s not going to last: Joy may be a dreamer, but she’s also a realist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoor Cow\u003c\/i\u003e, the first novel by Nell Dunn, was trailed by controversy upon its release, in 1967, for its portrayal of impoverished young people making a gutless living in London’s East End. The men are idle, drunk, and watch too much television; the women wear cheap, plastic clothing and too much perfume. Joy wants to live out the liberated ideas that would come to define the 1960s; she wants sex, money, beautiful clothes, excitement, and a life that feels unmistakably her own. Joy's circumstances may be destitute, even desperate, but she insists on imagining something more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank, funny, and profane, \u003ci\u003ePoor Cow\u003c\/i\u003e remains a landmark of feminist fiction, and Joy one of the first truly liberated heroines of postwar fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nell Dunn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49218361196795,"sku":"9781965028100","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/poor-cow-9781965028100","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}