{"product_id":"this-is-the-way-paperback","title":"This Is the Way - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGavin Corbett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a startling new voice in Irish fiction, a mesmerizing tale of a young man on the run in Dublin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement house in Dublin: he fears he has reignited an ancient feud between the two halves of his family. Twenty-first-century Dublin may have shopping malls and foreign exchange students, but Anthony is from an Irish Travelling community, where blood ties are bound deeply to the past. When his roguish uncle Arthur shows up on his doorstep with a missing toe, delirious and apparently on the run, history and its troubles are following close behind him--and Anthony will soon have to face the question of who he really is. \u003cbr\u003e In prose of exceptional vividness, Gavin Corbett brings us a narrator with the power to build a new, previously unimagined world. His language, shot through with dreams and myths, summons a vision of Ireland in which a premodern spirit has somehow persisted into contemporary life, brooding and overlooked. Funny, terrible, unsettling, fiercely unsentimental, \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Way \u003c\/i\u003eis haunted by some of Ireland's greatest writers even as it breaks new ground and asks afresh why the imagination is so necessary to survival.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGavin Corbett\u003c\/b\u003e was born in the west of Ireland and was raised in Dublin, where he studied history at Trinity College. \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Way\u003c\/i\u003e is his second novel. He lives in Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.08 x 5.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130023415943,"sku":"9780865478077","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e215a74ad6aa3f6939b3b8da8cf3e71e.webp?v=1732607645","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/this-is-the-way-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}