{"product_id":"frank-oconnor-omnibus","title":"Frank O'Connor Omnibus","description":"The contents have been intriguingly divided into eight narrative threads that influenced and informed O'Connor's oeuvre. \u003ci\u003eWar\u003c\/i\u003e includes the famous 'Guests of the Nation', set during the Irish War of Independence; \u003ci\u003eChildhood\u003c\/i\u003e draws on autobiographical writings to present a revealing picture of the author as a boy, the only child of an alcoholic father and doting mother; \u003ci\u003eWriters\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to his literary debt to Yeats and Joyce. The stories in \u003ci\u003eLonely Voices\u003c\/i\u003e movingly demonstrate O'Connor's theory that in this genre can be achieved 'something we do not often find in the novel - an intense awareness of human loneliness'; yet they are counterparted by his wonderfully polyphonic tales of family, friendship and rivalry in \u003ci\u003eBetter Quarrelling.\u003c\/i\u003e In \u003ci\u003eIreland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecome poems, stories and articles inspired by the native land he loved but never sentimentalized, while from \u003ci\u003eAbroad\u003c\/i\u003e the writer in exile discourses upon universally relevant themes of emigration, hardship, absence and return. Finally, \u003ci\u003eLast Things\u003c\/i\u003e contains O'Connor's thoughts on religion, the church, the soul and its destiny, but remains above all a celebration of humanity 'who for me represented all I should ever know of God'.","brand":"Everyman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54253114884440,"sku":"9781841593210","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781841593210_eabbdc65-a9ba-4383-a921-308e0c7b2dd8.jpg?v=1764476122","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/frank-oconnor-omnibus","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}