{"product_id":"everything-matters-pb-us-z16","title":"Ron Currie: Everything Matters! [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own.\" -Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows-neither his exalted parents, nor his baseball-savant brother, nor the love of his life (she doesn't believe him anyway): The world will end when he is thirty-six. While Junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, his loved ones tell an all-American family saga of fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconciliation-culminating in one final triumph that reconfigures the universe. A tour de force of storytelling, \u003ci\u003eEverything Matters!\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-bending potpourri of alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American tale in the tradition of John Irving and Margaret Atwood.","brand":"Currie, Ron","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42031701655737,"sku":"9780143117513","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/currie-ron-everything-matters-pb-us-z16-9780143117513-32171826512057.jpg?v=1655911992","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/everything-matters-pb-us-z16","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}