{"product_id":"mayflies-a-novel-9780771018916","title":"Mayflies: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMayflies: A Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e by O'Hagan, Andrew. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780771018916.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.\n\nEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.\n\nIn 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.\n\nThirty 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. Mayflies 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953355124789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0771018916","price":33.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780771018916_f026e97d-ed19-47ca-90a8-1b3274d6d3b5.jpg?v=1781306708","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mayflies-a-novel-9780771018916","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}