{"product_id":"9781250062451","title":"The Plover: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeclan O Donnell has sailed deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally \u003ci\u003eenough\u003c\/i\u003e of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the galaxy soon presents him with a string of odd, entertaining, and dangerous passengers, who become companions of every sort and stripe. \u003ci\u003eThe Plover\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of their adventures and misadventures in the immense blue country one of their company calls Pacifica. Hounded by a mysterious enemy, reluctantly acquiring one new resident after another, Declan O Donnell's lonely boat is eventually crammed with humor, argument, tension, and a resident herring gull.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Doyle's \u003ci\u003eThe Plover\u003c\/i\u003e is a sea novel, a maritime adventure, the story of a cold man melting, a compendium of small miracles, an elegy to Edmund Burke, a watery quest, a battle at sea---and a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034279624944,"sku":"9781250062451","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250062451_p0.jpg?v=1763701468","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250062451","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}