{"product_id":"the-journey-home-9780007154111","title":"The Journey Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Journey Home' is the story of a young boy's struggle towards maturity, set against a shocking portrait of Ireland: a tough urban landscape, not a rural Eden.Francis Hanrahan, the shy child of grey suburban streets, is Francy at home to his country-born parents. But when he meets Shay, an older, wilder image of himself, he becomes Hano, and is cast out into the night-time world of Dublin  a world of drugs, all-night drinking sessions in bars and snooker halls, and the stench of political corruption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A film-noir of a book, with a double murder at its core…excitingly and absorbingly told.’ Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘It is the best novel about Dublin since Joyce. Hano’s initiation into sleazy Dublin nightlife and Shay’s eventual tragic humiliation is conveyed with a compelling, even reckless, intensity.’ Irish Independent\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Devastatingly forceful…Bolger is to Dublin what Dickens was to Victorian London: archivist, reporter, sometimes infuriated lover.’ Joseph O’Connor\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862357508439,"sku":"9780007154111","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780007154111.jpg?v=1759917581","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-journey-home-9780007154111","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}