{"product_id":"sun-is-open","title":"Sun Is Open","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun is Open\u003c\/i\u003e sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of the author’s father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving between child and adult voices, past and present, this startlingly innovative debut attempts to decode the fragments left behind and, with them, piece together a history and a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Each page of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Is Open\u003c\/i\u003e is rich with exquisite and surprising language, pain, and wisdom.’ \u003ci\u003e- Maggie Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eThe Sun is Open\u003c\/em\u003e employs a grammar in which everything is significant, from Wendy Houses, to the very hairs of your head, to the poetry of First Aid instructions, to slaters. This is meticulous and painstaking — sometimes pain-making work — making the words fit the columns, be they inches of newsprint or entries in an Account Book, negotiating or nudging the meanings into alternative senses.’ - Ciaran Carson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314712420734,"sku":"NW9781908058928","price":9.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/sun-is-open","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}