{"product_id":"2940032956907","title":"The Life Business","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith astonishing power, award-winning author John Grant portrays the human facility to falsify history, using as his backdrop the beginnings of the late-20th-century troubles in Northern Ireland, as an unwitting mainland schoolboy finds himself caught up in a violence he barely understands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the closing story, “The Life Business”, the fantasy master who writes as John Grant draws upon his . . . real-life teenage stint as a British cadet. He integrates disturbing and emotional reveries into his shape-shifting characters. His story rattled me the most [in the anthology Requiems for the Departed]. Grant eerily channels otherworldly senses into a psychological study of identity.\u003cbr\u003e--John L. Murphy, PopMatters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[In \"The Life Business\"] memoir meets memory, the childhood crimes whose hammer blows and sharp chisels shape our adult lives. Grant's account of a summer camp on the banks of the Foyle, pre-Troubles, shines a beam far brighter than any Rupert Bear flashlight could cast. [The anthology] closes with a fantastic twist.\u003cbr\u003e--Critical Mick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...a compelling coming-of-age tale.\u003cbr\u003e--Declan Burke, Crime Always Pays\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"infinity plus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073014939888,"sku":"2940032956907","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940032956907_p0.jpg?v=1763655402","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940032956907","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}