{"product_id":"richard-flanagan-question-7-2024-hardback","title":"Richard Flanagan: Question 7 [2024] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has \u003cb\u003eall the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuestion 7 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003esets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There's so much . . . in Flanagan's \u003cb\u003ebeautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eThat it is a masterpiece is without question\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science, and memory, \u003ci\u003eQuestion 7\u003c\/i\u003e shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work... I can think of nothing else quite like it' Sarah Perry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet' Laura Cumming\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' Colm Toibin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuestion 7\u003c\/i\u003e could be Richard Flanagan's greatest yet'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down' Mark Haddon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Flanagan, Winner of the Booker Prize 2014\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flanagan, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":50633162948947,"sku":"XE81784745677","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":51374717108563,"sku":"XV81784745677","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":48864285720915,"sku":"9781784745677","price":24.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/flanagan-richard-richard-flanagan-question-7-2024-hardback-1151155051.jpg?v=1752149960","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/richard-flanagan-question-7-2024-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}