{"product_id":"vivid-faces","title":"Vivid Faces","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBSERVER \u003c\/i\u003eBOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT \u003c\/i\u003eBOOKS OF THE YEAR and \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER \u003c\/i\u003eBOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION''S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The most complete and plausible exploration of the roots of the 1916 Rebellion... essential reading'' Colm Tóibín\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVivid Faces\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love.  Determined to reconstruct the world and defining themselves against their parents, they were in several senses a revolutionary generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ireland that eventually emerged bore little relation to the brave new world they had conjured up in student societies, agit-prop theatre groups, vegetarian restaurants, feminist collectives, volunteer militias, Irish-language summer schools,  and radical newspaper offices. Roy Foster''s book investigates that world, and the extraordinary people who occupied it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking back from old age, one of the most magnetic members of the revolutionary generation reflected that ''the phoenix of our youth has fluttered to earth a miserable old hen'', but he also wondered ''how many people nowadays get so much fun as we did''.  Working from a rich trawl of contemporary diaries, letters and reflections, \u003ci\u003eVivid Faces\u003c\/i\u003e re-creates the argumentative, exciting, subversive and original lives of people who made a revolution, as well as the disillusionment in which  it ended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319319044478,"sku":"NW9780241954249","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241954249.jpg?v=1778690217","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/vivid-faces","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}