{"product_id":"the-divine-ryans-9780385495448","title":"The Divine Ryans","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Divine Ryans\u003c\/strong\u003e by Johnston, Wayne. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780385495448.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, \"An absolute stunner--achingly funny, needle-sharp, and packing an unexpected wallop...the literary equivalent of a small-budget movie masterpiece with heart, soul, and brains\"(Time Out).\n\nThe Ryans of St. Johns, Newfoundland, are a large and deeply eccentric Irish-Catholic family in the dual business of newspaper-publishing and undertaking--\"one-hundred years of digging up dirt of one kind or another,\" as Uncle Reginald puts it. Enough Ryans also become priests and nuns to earn them the sobriquet \"Divine.\"\n\nThe youngest member of the family is nine-year-old Draper Doyle Ryan, whose passion for the Catholic Montreal Canadiens in their battles against the Protestant Toronto Maple Leafs is matched only by his perplexity over his recently deceased fathers regular reappearances, hockey puck in hand, in the house next door. How he comes to make sense of these visitations, his gently screwy relatives, and his own burgeoning sexuality forms the matter of this droll, wise, and effortlessly funny coming-of-age novel.\n\nSoon to be a major motion picture from the producer of Love and Death on Long Island, and starring Oscar®-nominee Pete Postlethwaite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadway Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116198846517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385495447","price":58.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385495448_f2af6098-328b-4453-ac0a-56d5a520908e.jpg?v=1779905917","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-divine-ryans-9780385495448","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}