{"product_id":"john-millington-synge-a-biography-9780312135263","title":"John Millington Synge: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eSynge was born into an evangelical Protestant world that was increasingly at odds with the mainstream of Irish society. He himself became an agnostic and a Darwinian at an early age. Nonetheless he retained an interest in the occult and the mystical that was to stand him in good stead as a writer. Additionally  Synge was intensely musical. Indeed  his original intention was to make a career as a professional musician and he studied in Germany to that end. In time  he abandoned music for literature  but his greatest plays sing with a unique musical language quite unlike the work of any other dramatist. He was a passionate man  one who watched everything  missed nothing  and assembled apparently insignificant details into building blocks of great art. His three great plays  In the Shadow of the Glen  Riders to the Sea  and The Playboy of the Western World  established modern Irish drama and gave it its central position in the Irish literary revival. But the author of these remarkable works was a dying man. For years Synge had battled Hodgkins disease and in 1909 he succumbed to it at the age of thirty-eight. This outstanding biography  written with great verve and assurance  will reestablish Synge in the hearts of a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67963828109365,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312135262","price":45.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312135263.jpg?v=1794542648","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/john-millington-synge-a-biography-9780312135263","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}