{"product_id":"love-9781984880475","title":"Love","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrinking pals back in their youth, now married and with grown up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he needs to tell Davy, and Davy has a sorrow he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoe has left his wife and family for another woman, Jessica. Davy knows her too, or should - she was the girl of their dreams four decades earlier, the girl with the cello in George's pub. As Joe's story unfolds across Dublin - pint after pint, pub after pub - so too do the memories of what eventually drove Davy from Ireland: his first encounter with Faye, the lively woman who would become his wife; his father's somber disapproval; the pained spaces left behind when a parent dies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the two friends try to reconcile their versions of the past over the course of one night, \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e offers a delightfully comic yet moving portrait of the many forms love can take throughout our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781984880475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Roddy Doyle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40085546696885,"sku":"9781984880475","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9e21af96-3cea-4c3a-986a-33fe1946441e.jpg?v=1621901773","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/love-9781984880475","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}