{"product_id":"9780571283064","title":"Autobiographies I: I Knock at the Door and Pictures in the Hallway","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what  I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the  things that made me.'\u003cbr\u003eSean O'Casey, 1948\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSean O'Casey's six-part \u003ci\u003eAutobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e,  originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently  comprehensive self-portrait of an artist's life and times, unsurpassed  in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains the first two parts: \u003ci\u003eI Knock at the Door\u003c\/i\u003e (1939) and \u003ci\u003ePictures in the Hallway\u003c\/i\u003e  (1942). The former charts the childhood of young 'John Cassidy' (as  O'Casey was christened), powerfully marked by the death of his father  and his affliction by the eye infection trachoma. \u003ci\u003ePictures in the Hallway\u003c\/i\u003e  carries the story into John's adolescence, and tentative steps into the  adult world of work, the opposite sex and political awakening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164668313840,"sku":"9780571283064","price":16.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571283064_p0.jpg?v=1763718932","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571283064","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}