{"product_id":"twenty-years-a-growing-9781879941397","title":"Twenty Years A-Growing","description":"O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. \"The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation.\"-Sean O'F?ol?in, \u003ci\u003eThe Listener\u003c\/i\u003e. Introductory Note by E. M. Forster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaurice O'Sullivan was born in 1904 and joined the Civic Guard of the nascent Irish Republic as a young man, but found that law enforcement was not to his liking. While posted in Connemara he wrote a novel, Twenty Years A-Growing, for the entertainment was friends. He drowned tragically in 1950, leaving behind a widow and two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50433348698386,"sku":"9781879941397","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6db2d50e-5a6e-423b-8f43-07e2e505c81d.jpg?v=1729567921","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/twenty-years-a-growing-9781879941397","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}