{"product_id":"9780547541174","title":"Kieron Smith, Boy","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning novel of urban boyhood: “No other . . . comes as close as this to \u003ci\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Man Booker Prize–winning author brings us inside the head of a young boy in a novel that offers a “splendid evocation of childhood in mid-20th-century Glasgow” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Here is the story of a boyhood in a large industrial city during a time of great social change. Kieron grows from age five to early adolescence amid the general trauma of everyday life—the death of a beloved grandparent, the move to a new home. A whole world is brilliantly realized: sectarian football matches; ferryboats on the river; the unfairness of being a younger brother; climbing drainpipes, trees, and roofs; dogs, cats, sex, and ghosts—all rendered in the unmistakable perspective of youth, offering “a vivid reminder that childhood is a foreign country” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A book full of the wonder of growing up . . . A magnificent and important novel.” —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Recalls the modernist experiments of Joyce and Woolf . . . Kelman is a writer of singular will and sincerity.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “As an urban coming-of-age, the novel also reminded me of \u003ci\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn.\u003c\/i\u003e . . . This funny, sad and deeply entrancing novel works as dreams do: by seduction, by raising strange spirits, and by delivering a world entire. It represents a triumph for Kelman, as hard and uproarious as a Glasgow Saturday night.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Kelman’s raw, blunt narration drives home all of Kieron’s loneliness, sadness and feelings of inadequacy. If you can roll with the Scots dialect, the narrative is rewarding, bleak and marvelous.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113504555248,"sku":"9780547541174","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547541174_p0.jpg?v=1769896321","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547541174","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}