{"product_id":"good-trouble-hb-z49","title":"Joseph O’Neill: Good Trouble [2018] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cem\u003eBack at dinner, somebody said that the goose thinks it's a dog. No, it doesn't. It doesn't think it's a dog. The goose doesn't think. The goose just is. And what the goose is, is goose. But goose is not goose, Robert thinks. Even the goose isn't goose.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGood Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e, the first story collection from Joseph O'Neill, author of \u003cem\u003eNetherland\u003c\/em\u003e, characters are forced to discover exactly who they are, and who they can never quite be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThere's Rob, who swears he is a dependable member of society, but can't scrape together a character reference to prove that's the case. And Jayne, who has no choice but to investigate a strange noise downstairs while her husband lies glued to the bed with fear. A mother tries to find where she fits into her son's new life of semi-soft rind-washed cheeses, and a poet tries to fathom what makes a poet. Do you even have to write poetry?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003ePacked with O'Neill's trademark acerbic humour, \u003cem\u003eGood Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e explores the maddening and secretly political space between thoughts and deeds, between men and women, between goose and not-goose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O'neill, Joseph","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44185175982370,"sku":"9780008283995","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47986049941843,"sku":"XG80008283995","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47838493671763,"sku":"XV80008283995","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/o-neill-joseph-joseph-o-neill-good-trouble-2018-hardback-58133123596627.jpg?v=1727122097","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/good-trouble-hb-z49","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}