{"product_id":"the-panhandle-9781803693071","title":"The Panhandle","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Caddle\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Generation Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Generation Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Coming of Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Panhandle, a nineteen seventies sixth former and A level student at St John's Comprehensive, Episcopi, Cyprus, realizes that he is full of world-weary anticipation and hopelessly trapped in both a RAF-based paradise and his own world of entrenched teenage uncertainty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe enjoys the freedom of his youth but is confined to the limited choices of what he then feels unequal to taking on. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe resists and is swayed in equal measure by the gentle and rough demands of friendly and insistent peer pressure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe regards himself as someone trying to win at the game of essentially being an average loser. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story follows him through five weeks of this teenaged angst-ridden escapade, wherein many attempt to reassure him of his plight and disabuse him of his secure position as a hopeless case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46445047906455,"sku":"9781803693071","price":1985.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781803693071.webp?v=1769132592","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-panhandle-9781803693071","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}