{"product_id":"9781843519898","title":"The Waking Of Willie Ryan - John Broderick","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong overlooked but now recognised as a quietly radical masterpiece,�The Waking of Willie Ryan�reveals John Broderick as one of the most incisive chroniclers of mid-century Ireland. Set in a midlands town where beauty and brutality uneasily coexist, the novel follows the return of Willie Ryan - once scapegoated for his relationships with men, institutionalised, and written out of local memory - who comes home to die and, in doing so, unsettles the pieties that once destroyed him. �Broderick's portrait of Willie is unforgettably tender: a gay man whose dignity, vulnerability and refusal `to serve' expose the hypocrisies of a society built on fear. Through crystalline prose and an unsparing eye, Broderick maps the forces - clerical authority, bourgeois respectability, inherited shame - that shaped Irish life in the 1960s. �A pioneering exploration of queer Irish experience and a devastating critique of provincial cruelty,�The Waking of Willie Ryan�stands alongside the great modern Irish novels for its moral clarity, elegance, and emotional force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Broderick","offers":[{"title":"240 pages \/ 07\/05\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57110735487351,"sku":"9781843519898","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781843519898_d335d775-0a75-4aba-b07d-66aefab02696.jpg?v=1781004164","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781843519898","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}