{"product_id":"the-news-from-dublin","title":"The News from Dublin","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Colm Tóibín, \"one of the world's best living literary writers,\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), a brilliant new collection of nine short stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--many never before published.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in Spain, Ireland, and America, these gorgeous stories explore longing, estrangement from family, grief, the pull of the past, and complex, transcendent love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e - \"Five Bridges\" (originally published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e - \"The Catalan Girls\" (new)","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54328049500526,"sku":"9781476785141","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_74788bd3-5c2a-4449-a661-d07c8cf2d96e.jpg?v=1784131265","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/the-news-from-dublin","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}