{"product_id":"boyhood-island-my-struggle-book-4","title":"Boyhood Island: My Struggle Book 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Morning Star\u003c\/i\u003e, is available to pre-order now *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChildhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the now infamously direct style of the \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... \u003ci\u003eBoyhood Island\u003c\/i\u003e reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Geographic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780099581499\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knausgaard, Karl Ove","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47953761206449,"sku":"SB-0099581493-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/boyhood-island-my-struggle-book-4","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}