{"product_id":"news-from-dublin-hc","title":"News From Dublin HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom Colm Tóibín, \"one of the world's best living literary writers,\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), a brilliant new collection of nine short stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—many never before published.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColm Tóibín is a master of the short story, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. Described as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), he brings to these stories an astonishing clarity and compassion. In “The Journey to Galway,” a mother learns of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in WWII, and must travel from Dublin to share the news with his wife and their three now fatherless children. In “Sleep,” published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, two lovers part as one of them cannot acknowledge or face his grief and fear after the death of his brother. And in the title story, death, again, is a central character as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin from Enniscorthy to petition the health minister for access to a new drug being tested for tuberculosis. Maurice’s younger brother is dying of TB, and this is the only hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Spain, Ireland, and America, these gorgeous stories explore longing, estrangement from family, grief, the pull of the past, and complex, transcendent love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection includes:\u003cbr\u003e- “The Journey to Galway” (originally published in Faber Anthology)\u003cbr\u003e- “A Free Man” (new)\u003cbr\u003e- “Sleep” (originally published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e- “The News from Dublin” (originally published in Faber Anthology)\u003cbr\u003e- “A Sum of Money” (new)\u003cbr\u003e- “Barton Springs” (originally published in Marlene Dumas catalogue)\u003cbr\u003e- “Summer of ’38” (originally published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e- “Five Bridges” (originally published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e- “The Catalan Girls” (new)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52963021586663,"sku":null,"price":6.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/51lKWcwWEYL.webp?v=1793571107","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/news-from-dublin-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}