{"product_id":"birchwood","title":"Birchwood","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA classic novel of family, isolation and a blighted Ireland from the Booker Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sea \u003c\/em\u003edepicts\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethe end of innocence for a boy and his country.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a dilapidated family manor filled with memories and despair. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a traveling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that famine and unrest stalk the countryside, and Ireland is ruined too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told with lyrical prose, John Banville's \u003cem\u003eBirchwood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis the elegiac story of the aristocratic decline of an eccentric family riddled with dark secrets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English language.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Hanover Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54701596246382,"sku":"9781335928450","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_d052fc43-5189-41c0-b33d-afd85b22e497.jpg?v=1788296990","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/birchwood","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}