{"product_id":"9780307279125","title":"Birchwood","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am therefore I think\u003c\/i\u003e. So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel \u003ci\u003eBirchwood\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets—a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother—Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland, \u003ci\u003eBirchwood\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007703433456,"sku":"9780307279125","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307279125_p0.jpg?v=1763671725","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307279125","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}