{"product_id":"mayflies","title":"Mayflies","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news--news that forces the life-long friends to confront their own mortality head-on. What follows is an incredibly moving examination of the responsibilities and obligations we have to those we love. \u003ci\u003eMayflies\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a finely-tuned drama about the delicacy and impermanence of human connection and an urgent inquiry into some of the most important questions of all: Who are we? What do we owe to our friends? And what does it mean to love another person amidst tragedy?\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0771068115\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780771068119\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: O'Hagan, Andrew\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2022)","offer_id":46081473347781,"sku":"9780771068119","price":13.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780771068119.jpg?v=1776046387","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/mayflies","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}