{"product_id":"9781324117407","title":"The Irish Goodbye : Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly","description":"What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention. Fennelly explores her roles as a friend, wife, mother and daughter in precise sentences. The longer essays concern Fennelly's relationships-with a beloved mother-in-law, a decades-long friendship between former college roommates, an artist who paints a series of nude portraits in Fennelly's town. Interspersed between these longer memoirs are sections of flash non-fiction, a form Fennelly innovated. With dazzling verve and wit, they capture the interstitial interactions-encounters with strangers, quirky observations, unexpected flights of fancy-that make up a richly lived life. With emotional clarity and nimble prose, Fennelly invites readers to share her affirming worldview-one in which even our smallest interactions are rife with possibility.   Beth Ann Fennelly's Heating and Cooling was praised as:\"A surprisingly maximalist portrait of a life.\" - New York Times Book Review\"The micro-memoirs showcase a range of emotions that belies their brevity-taken from another standpoint, their brevity is what gives them power.\" - The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368672637301,"sku":"9781324117407","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781324117407","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}