{"product_id":"monaghan-paperback","title":"Monaghan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy O'Grady\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful and complex' -- Annie Proulx \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A writer of exceptional gifts' -- Louise Kennedy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'O'Grady strikes a beautiful note' -- Kevin Barry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoving from West Belfast and County Monaghan to the streets of San Francisco, Timothy O'Grady's exhilarating new novel is an epic portrait of art and war, authenticity and selling out, told through the fates of three men.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonan Treanor, Monaghan native and teller of this tale, is a celebrated theorist of postmodern architecture in New York. Paul Crane, single son of a hotel maid in Indiana, turns his mathematical gift into a multimillion-dollar career as an investment banker. And the mysterious Ryan, who drew as a boy in besieged West Belfast, but was swept up in the war against the British and lived a decade of extreme and escalating violence as a sniper. Through him, the war in Ireland and its psychic legacy are brought into close focus in a way rarely seen in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir lives merge and conflict, rise and fall, as one man becomes the undoing of the next. Hauntingly beautiful, lyrical and profound, this is a novel about what happens when you cannot escape your past, featuring drawings and paintings by Anthony Lott.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'O'Grady evokes place, the latent violence of Ireland in the 1980s and its psychic displacements. The prose is mesmerising' -- Una Mannion, author of \u003ci\u003eTell Me What I Am\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Monaghan reveals the legacy of violence and political division in a gripping narrative and a precise and original voice' -- Erica Wagner, literary critic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Monaghan is written with an intensity that is remarkable in contemporary fiction . . . Timothy O'Grady is a major writer of our time' -- Patrick Joyce, author of \u003ci\u003eGoing to My Father's House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy O'Grady\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Chicago and has lived in Ireland, London, Spain and Poland. He is the author of four works of non-fiction and four novels. His novel \u003ci\u003eMotherland\u003c\/i\u003e won the David Higham Prize for the best first novel in 1989. His novel \u003ci\u003eI Could Read the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, a collaboration with photographer Steve Pyke, won the Encore Award for best second novel of 1997. It was filmed and also travelled as a stage show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67972633493811,"sku":"9781806770090","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/61YiiFRb0L9781806770090.webp?v=1794430506","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/monaghan-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}