{"product_id":"9780771018916","title":"Mayflies","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty 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. \u003ci\u003eMayflies\u003c\/i\u003e 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?","brand":"Andrew O'Hagan","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44679552106656,"sku":"9780771018916","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_91e81c7b-b14b-4dbe-8e02-dc24f52a81fa.jpg?v=1685204098","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780771018916","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}