{"product_id":"9780292738959","title":"The Journey Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Fiction Category, 2008\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Francis Hanrahan dreams desperately of a life different from that of his country-born, suburban-living parents. On his first day at his first job Francis makes his first real friend. Shay, a would-be older brother, introduces \"Hano\" to Dublin's appealingly seedy after-hours bars and drug-fueled parties. They are joined by Cait, a troubled teenager who spends her days in a stupor. But the noir thrills of underground Dublin cannot conceal the unemployment, corruption, and violence strangling the city. The Plunkett brothers, masters of \"the subtle everyday corruption on which a dynasty was built\" will use the friends—with tragic results.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTorn between his friends, his family, and his own ideals, Hano ultimately falls victim to these powerful forces and commits a heinous crime. He flees through the countryside with Cait, wondering, as he narrates the events that set him on this path, if there is a home at the end of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eControversial for its gritty portrait of Dublin in the 1980s, \u003ci\u003eThe Journey Home\u003c\/i\u003e is Dermot Bolger's unflinching look at the personal cost of social progress, and those, innocent or not, lost during the journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075912057072,"sku":"9780292738959","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780292738959_p0.jpg?v=1763682890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780292738959","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}