{"product_id":"the-club-9780141399669","title":"The Club","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph''s Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish sportswriting. Christy O''Connor, a national GAA correspondent who has also been the St Joseph''s senior team goalkeeper for 20 years, tells this story with unflinching honesty:    a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grassroots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly told.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo understand Ireland, you have to understand the GAA. To understand the GAA, you have to read this book. A masterpiece. -- Tom Humphries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary saga - unflinching in its honesty. This book is to  hurling what Eamon Dunphy's seminal \u003ci\u003eOnly a Game?\u003c\/i\u003e was to soccer writing\u003c\/p\u003e -- Richard Fitzpatrick * Irish Examiner *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis  is one of the best sports that has been written in Ireland. You'll cry a  lot, if you have a soul. And if you love sport, you'll love this book.\u003c\/p\u003e * Ger Gilroy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeserves its place among the  most courageous Irish sports books ever conceived, and one of the finest  ever written\u003c\/p\u003e -- Michael Foley * Sunday Times *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017578807639,"sku":"9780141399669","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141399669.jpg?v=1750774008","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-club-9780141399669","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}