{"product_id":"boulevard-wren-and-other-stories","title":"Boulevard Wren and other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoulevard Wren and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is the stunning follow-up to the bestselling \u003cem\u003eGospel According to Blindboy\u003c\/em\u003e, and a warped mirror held up to the Irish psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eProvocative and unsettling, the stories rove through the centuries, from the barren fields of Famine-struck Meath to the chaotic landscape of the near future, where social media has colonised the deepest recesses of the human subconscious. This is a world populated by characters lost and at odds with the demands of contemporary life, for whom the line separating redemption and madness has grown impossibly fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRazor-sharp social satire, it is an era-defining work from one of Ireland’s most anarchic satirists and a quietly devastating portrait of a society in disarray.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘Mad, wild, hysterical.’ Kevin Barry, author of \u003cem\u003eNight Boat to Tangier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"Strapline\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003eMore stories and musings from the anarchic mind of the Bagged One\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55139560358275,"sku":"9780717183340","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0910\/3664\/7811\/files\/ee23bc0c68fadf73ce4d651b9a24b0af.jpg?v=1741440093","url":"https:\/\/shop.gill.ie\/products\/boulevard-wren-and-other-stories","provider":"Gill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}