{"product_id":"the-green-road-1","title":"The Green Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-Hand (Hardcover)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. Anne Enright is addicted to the truth of things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSentence by sentence, there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque and gleam, such wit and longing - who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million splinters of her characters' lives then pull them back up together again, into a perfect glass.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com\/search?q=Anne+Enright\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eMore books by Anne Enright\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Anne Enright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42715721597097,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/green_23892218-47f0-4a83-adee-06a6dfa7b071.jpg?v=1667447190","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-green-road-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}