{"product_id":"9780571294947","title":"Trespassers: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eHer mother, who wrote vivid versions  of old Irish folk tales, once said of the Irish Civil War: 'In those  days... fear kept you from sleeping, but also from getting fat or  bored.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer father was Director of Publicity for the IRA during  that savage conflict. He made bombs. A brilliant writer, his first book  of stories was banned and he was summoned by his old IRA comrades to be  court-martialled for writing it. He became one of Ireland's most  celebrated writers and a radical dissident during the 1940s, challenging  Church and State for their betrayal of the people's needs. His affairs  with Elizabeth Bowen and many other women were betrayals of a more  intimate kind. This was the backdrop to Julia O'Faolain's childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer  life is filled with great characters: Frank O'Connor, Paul Henry,  Garret Fitzgerald, Hubert Butler, Patrick Kavanagh and Richard Ellman;  and later, in their villas outside Florence, Harold Acton and Violet  Trefusis, along with a cast of prim communists and raffish reactionary  aristocrats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about being an outsider looking in, a  trespasser in Ireland and in other countries - France, Italy in the  late 1950s, the West Coast during the turbulent sixties - and also in  other lives, the permanent temptation of the creative writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123832439024,"sku":"9780571294947","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571294947_p0.jpg?v=1763719219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571294947","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}