{"product_id":"a-history-of-loneliness-paperback","title":"A History of Loneliness - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Boyne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBestselling author John Boyne's\u003ci\u003e A History of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e tells the riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to \"the good.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the Irish people's faith in the Catholic Church. He sees his friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed, and grows nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insults. At one point, he is even arrested when he takes the hand of a young boy and leads him out of a department store looking for the boy's mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when a family event opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within the church, and to recognize his own complicity in their propagation, within both the institution and his own family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A novel as intimate as it is universal, \u003ci\u003eA History of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e is about the stories we tell ourselves to make peace with our lives. It confirms Boyne as one of the most searching storytellers of his generation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Boyne\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCrippen, The Thief of Time, Next of Kin\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003eand internationally bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas\u003c\/i\u003e. Boyne won two Irish Book Awards (the People's Choice and the Children's) for \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a Miramax feature film, and his novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. Ireland's \u003ci\u003eSunday Business Post\u003c\/i\u003e named him one of the forty people under forty in Ireland \"likely to be the movers and shakers who will define the country's culture, politics, style and economics in 2005 and beyond.\" Crippen was nominated for the \u003ci\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e Hughes \u0026amp; Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives with his partner in Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52527377416499,"sku":"9781250094643","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZDVXWHF3RUtyeVVtRzEySjBMWi9XUT09.webp?v=1760648303","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-history-of-loneliness-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}