{"product_id":"songdogs-9780312147419","title":"Songdogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColum McCann creates in \u003ci\u003eSongdogs\u003c\/i\u003e a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax. The narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine to astonishing effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColum McCann\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of books including \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Brightness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoli\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSongdogs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and was named the first winner of the Grace Kelly Memorial Foundation Award and the Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460113994002,"sku":"9780312147419","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_161125ec-6bb9-4de6-868a-ec23676ec6f0.jpg?v=1730028051","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/songdogs-9780312147419","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}