{"product_id":"good-behaviour","title":"Good Behaviour","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 2021 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIs it possible to kill with kindness? As Molly Keane’s Booker Prize–short-listed dark comedy suggests, not only can kindness be deadly, it just may be the best form of revenge. The novel opens as Aroon St. Charles prepares to serve her invalid mother a splendid luncheon—the silver gleams, the linens glow—of rabbit mousse, a dish her mother despises. In fact, a single whiff of the stuff is enough to knock the old lady dead. “All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives,” says Aroon soon after. In the pages that follow she will make her case, reminiscing about her youth among the hunting-and-fishing classes of Ireland, \u003cspan\u003ea faded aristocracy dedicated to distraction even as their fortunes dwindle. Keane’s brilliant sleight of hand is to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eallow her blinkered heroine to narrate her own development \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom neglected child, to ungainly debutante, to bitter spinster: Aroon understands nothing, yet she reveals all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47053695647883,"sku":"9781681375298","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/6892\/5323\/files\/keane.higher-res.jpg?v=1779444047","url":"https:\/\/b0xrri-gd.myshopify.com\/products\/good-behaviour","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}