{"product_id":"mayflies-9780771068119","title":"Mayflies","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news--news that forces the life-long friends to confront their own mortality head-on. What follows is an incredibly moving examination of the responsibilities and obligations we have to those we love. \u003ci\u003eMayflies\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a finely-tuned drama about the delicacy and impermanence of human connection and an urgent inquiry into some of the most important questions of all: Who are we? What do we owe to our friends? And what does it mean to love another person amidst tragedy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANDREW O'HAGAN was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and he won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50603533730066,"sku":"9780771068119","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d05ffad5-c708-496a-9dba-d5fff359a239.jpg?v=1732247976","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mayflies-9780771068119","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}