{"title":"Sebastian Barry","description":"Sebastian Barry's novel A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as was The Secret Scripture, which was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, winner of the Costa Book of the Year award and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, as well as the Irish Novel of the Year, and was selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe and The Economist. His other novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty and Annie Dunne. His plays have been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney and New York. Barry lives in Wicklow, Ireland, with his wife and three children.","products":[{"product_id":"on-canaans-side-paperback","title":"On Canaan's Side - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOld God's Time \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA first-person narrative of Lilly Bere's life, \u003ci\u003eOn Canaan's Side\u003c\/i\u003e opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where--far from her family--she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry's extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103669457119,"sku":"9780143122180","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/e--RN06Ah79780143122180.webp?v=1781097408"},{"product_id":"the-temporary-gentleman-the-temporary-gentleman-a-novel-paperback","title":"The Temporary Gentleman: The Temporary Gentleman: A Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Scripture.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eSebastian Barry's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Moons\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIrishman Jack McNulty is a \"temporary gentleman\"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel--as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer--has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. 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