{"product_id":"9780374712754","title":"Academy Street: A Novel","description":"OpenRoad - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely—a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcademy Street\u003c\/i\u003e is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force. It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy. It shows how the signal events of the last half century affect the course of a life lived in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    Anne Enright has said that Costello's first collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eThe China Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, \"has the feel of work that refused to be abandoned; of stories that were written for the sake of getting something important right . . . Her writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcademy Street\u003c\/i\u003e is driven by this same urgency. In sentence after sentence it captures the rhythm and intensity of inner life.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104123338992,"sku":"9780374712754","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374712754_p0.jpg?v=1769917614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374712754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}