{"product_id":"old-romantics-9781771966610","title":"Old Romantics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award - Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards \u003cem\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/em\u003e Newcomer of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike Dubliners, if Dubliners were \"Cat Person\" as a feminist mock-epic about a writer's coming of age--and every Dubliner was named Margaret.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman pursues a man who cut ahead of her in a line. Two nice people report that a child is being left unsupervised at a local beach. Romances, old and new, shift and sour. Following Maggie Armstrong's intrepid hero, Margaret, through first love, first bad date, first job, first extremely bad date, and on into midlife and its attendant disillusionment--and surprising revelations--\u003ci\u003eOld Romantics\u003c\/i\u003e is an acutely observed and hideously entertaining collection of linked short stories from an astonishing new talent. Slippery, flawed, and acute, Armstrong's narrator navigates a world of awkward expectation and latent hostility with piercing insight into the trials and tribulations of attempting to be human while female.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771966610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Maggie Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45078785589429,"sku":"9781771966610","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7cb50019-b538-44ca-b828-5c9345e26746.jpg?v=1738681683","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/old-romantics-9781771966610","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}