{"product_id":"american-youth","title":"Phil LaMarche: American Youth [2008] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this taut and powerful novel, a young teenager is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident at his home. Coerced by his mother to lie about his role in the incident, he finds he has nonetheless earned the admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school - calling themselves 'American Youth', they subscribe to a twisted notion of traditional, puritanical values. As he gets sucked into their orbit, and entangled with the girlfriend of the group's leader, he struggles to hold on to a sense of right and wrong. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in a New England town riven by social and ideological tensions - as newcomers encroach on an old rural culture - this is a classic portrait of a boy's rites of passage in an America ill at ease with itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lamarche, Phil","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48103390445907,"sku":"XV80340938041","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/lamarche-phil-american-youth-xv80340938041-55764276412755.jpg?v=1728003914","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/american-youth","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}