{"product_id":"memoir","title":"Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn McGahern''s astounding memoir of his childhood:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A glowing masterpiece.'' \u003c\/b\u003eHilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The one Irish writer everyone should read.'' \u003c\/b\u003eColm Tóibín\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.'' \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I have admired, even loved, McGahern''s work since his first novel ... \u003ci\u003eMemoir \u003c\/i\u003estrips the skin off his fiction as he faces a desperate early life with great force and tenderness.''\u003c\/b\u003e Melvyn Bragg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of John McGahern''s childhood, his mother''s death, his father''s anger and violence, and how, through his discovery of books, his dream of becoming a writer began. At the heart of \u003cb\u003eMemoir\u003c\/b\u003e is a son''s unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious and unconscious presences for the rest of his life. A classic family story, told with exceptional restraint and tenderness, \u003cb\u003eMemoir\u003c\/b\u003e cannot fail to move all those who read it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Magnificent ... Stand[s] supreme in the Irish canon.'' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Profoundly beautiful.'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Extraordinary, spellbinding, spiritual.'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndependent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''In a tremendously distinguished career, he has never written more movingly, or with a sharper eye.''\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Motion, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57431255351678,"sku":"NW9780571228119","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571228119.jpg?v=1779075921","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/memoir","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}