{"product_id":"st-patricks-day-another-day-in-dublin-9780268035389","title":"St. Patrick's Day: Another Day in Dublin","description":"On Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish American writer visiting Dublin takes a day trip around the city and muses on death, sex, lost love, Irish immigrant history, and his younger days as a student in Europe. Like James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas McGonigle's award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eSt. Patrick's Day\u003c\/i\u003e takes place on a single day, combining a stream-of-consciousness narrative with masterful old-fashioned storytelling, which samples the literary histories of both Ireland and America and the worlds they influence. \u003ci\u003eSt. Patrick's Day\u003c\/i\u003e relies on an interior monologue to portray the narrator's often dark perceptions and fantasies; his memories of his family in Patchogue, New York, and of the women in his life; and his encounters throughout the day, as well as many years ago, with revelers, poets, African students, and working-class Dubliners. Thomas McGonigle's novel is a brilliant portrait of the uneasy alliance between the Irish and Irish Americans, the result of the centuries-old diaspora and immigration, which left unsettled the mysteries of origins and legacy. \u003ci\u003eSt. Patrick's Day\u003c\/i\u003e is a rollicking pub-crawl through multi-sexual contemporary Dublin, a novel full of passion, humor, and insight, which makes the reader the author's accomplice, a witness to his heartfelt memorial to the fraught love affair between ancestors and generations. McGonigle tells the stories both countries need to hear. This particular St. Patrick's Day is an unforgettable one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas McGonigle was born in 1944 in Brooklyn. His previous novels, reviewed in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, include \u003ci\u003eThe Corpse Dream of N. Petkov\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoing to Patchogue\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410036691218,"sku":"9780268035389","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6979534-0668-453d-ab1c-6f29b725ad04.jpg?v=1729299703","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/st-patricks-day-another-day-in-dublin-9780268035389","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}