{"product_id":"9781843519195","title":"News of the World by Andrew McNellie","description":"To Aran, I tells how a young man from north Wales found the means to give shape a youthful dream of going to live on Inis?M?r, an adventure recorded in his acclaimed first memoir An Aran Keening.?This beautiful, high-spirited story blends moments of high farce, poetry and serious social observation, as the young McNeillie - a self-described `quare fellow' - pursues his dream with a kind of fatalistic abandonment. Down but not quite out, he works his way towards Aran - first as a local news reporter on ?5 a week in mining towns and villages in the Amman Valley in Wales. From there, he washes up in a condemned property at Waterloo on the Mersey shore in outer Liverpool and finally, aged twenty-one, finds himself in central London and the BBC's Radio Newsroom at Broadcasting House.?After amassing enough money to keep him afloat on Inis M?r?for a year, he sets out and, at the end of October 1968, he waved goodbye to a highly promising career, his colleagues, friends and even to his future wife: all to fulfil a dream he had when sixteen, first looking into J.M. Synge's The Aran Islands, as if it was Chapman's Homer and he John Keats.?\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308084146549,"sku":"9781843519195","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781843519195.jpg?v=1762806488","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781843519195","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}