{"product_id":"this-is-the-ritual","title":"This is the Ritual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing a break-up finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend’s red shoes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd whatever happened to Killian Turner, Ireland’s vanished literary outlaw? Lost and isolated, the characters in these masterful stories play out their fragmented relationships in a series of European cities, always on the move; from rented room to darkened apartment, hitchhiker's roadside to Barcelona nightclub. Rob Doyle, a shape-shifting drifter, a reclusive writer, also stalks the book's pages. Layering narratives and splicing fiction with non-fiction, This is the Ritual tells of the ecstatic, the desperate and the uncertain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImmersive, at times dreamlike, and frank in its depiction of sex, the writer's life, failed ideals and the transience of emotions, it introduces an unmistakable new literary voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: P\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublis\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ehed: 2017, UK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublish\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eer: Bloomsbury\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English \u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cspan\u003e9781408865378\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rob Doyle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57023412863307,"sku":null,"price":13.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9781408865378.jpg?v=1776099075","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/this-is-the-ritual","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}