{"product_id":"frank-oconnor-frank-oconnor-omnibus-2009-hardback","title":"Frank O'Connor: Frank O'Connor Omnibus [2009] hardback","description":"The contents have been intriguingly divided into eight narrative threads that influenced and informed O'Connor's oeuvre. \u003ci\u003eWar\u003c\/i\u003e includes the famous 'Guests of the Nation', set during the Irish War of Independence; \u003ci\u003eChildhood\u003c\/i\u003e draws on autobiographical writings to present a revealing picture of the author as a boy, the only child of an alcoholic father and doting mother; \u003ci\u003eWriters\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to his literary debt to Yeats and Joyce. The stories in \u003ci\u003eLonely Voices\u003c\/i\u003e movingly demonstrate O'Connor's theory that in this genre can be achieved 'something we do not often find in the novel - an intense awareness of human loneliness'; yet they are counterparted by his wonderfully polyphonic tales of family, friendship and rivalry in \u003ci\u003eBetter Quarrelling.\u003c\/i\u003e In \u003ci\u003eIreland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecome poems, stories and articles inspired by the native land he loved but never sentimentalized, while from \u003ci\u003eAbroad\u003c\/i\u003e the writer in exile discourses upon universally relevant themes of emigration, hardship, absence and return. Finally, \u003ci\u003eLast Things\u003c\/i\u003e contains O'Connor's thoughts on religion, the church, the soul and its destiny, but remains above all a celebration of humanity 'who for me represented all I should ever know of God'.","brand":"O'connor, Frank \u0026 Barnes, Julian","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49929389441363,"sku":"XV81841593210","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":52185957728595,"sku":"9781841593210","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/o-connor-frank-barnes-julian-frank-o-connor-frank-o-connor-omnibus-2009-hardback-xv81841593210-60394442228051.jpg?v=1761152521","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/frank-oconnor-frank-oconnor-omnibus-2009-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}