{"product_id":"ohearn-a-novel-9781573660501","title":"O'Hearn: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eO’Hearn\u003c\/em\u003e is the third novel by highly praised writer Greg Mulcahy, author of \u003cem\u003eOut of Work, Constellation\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCarbine\u003c\/em\u003e. Timely and mordantly sardonic, \u003cem\u003eO’Hearn\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the disintegration of a man’s life refracted through the prism of his office life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreg Mulcahy’s new novel opens on a man suffering an accident at his workplace. His colleagues there are known, at least initially, only as O’Hearn and Minouche. In the aftermath of the incident, this trinity begins to falls apart. His career falls apart. His life falls apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eO’Hearn\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of the story the man tells himself in confused chronology as he struggles to make sense of a world and a landscape where things have stopped making sense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe laws of causation are absent or profoundly obscured in this explanatory narrative, but then so is all individual motivation. Action seems to end only in a world of winners and losers and occurs solely to reinforce that world by further enriching the winners at the, sometimes willful, expense of the losers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eO’Hearn\u003c\/em\u003e is funny, contradictory, satiric, heartbreaking—a work unlike anything in our contemporary literature.","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863447208279,"sku":"9781573660501","price":12.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781573660501.jpg?v=1759920625","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ohearn-a-novel-9781573660501","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}