{"product_id":"star-factory-pb-z44","title":"Ciaran Carson: The Star Factory [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Ireland's most celebrated writers, musicians, and poets, Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast and has spent his life there. In \u003ci\u003eThe Star Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, he makes himself the cartographer of his home city's spaces, symbolic and literal, the scribe of its byways and avenues, from Abbey Road to Zetland Street. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelfast has seen transformation: once the fifth-greatest industrial city in the world, the home of the S.S. \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e, it has more recently been a battleground of sectarian slaughter. To conjure up the lives lived there, Carson plunges down the 'wormhole of memory' - admiring along the way the strata and roots beneath the surface. Though it has experienced more than its share of urban decay - the Star Factory of the title is an abandoned mill - Carson's Belfast teems with stories, stories that can spring from a telephone directory, a cigarette case, a postcard, a book about tramways, a stamp. For the eye that knows where to look, and the ear that can listen, gems and melodies are everywhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Star Factory\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegy of magical power and enduring love, a work of passion and precision, and sure to be considered one of the finest books about Ireland ever written. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carson, Ciaran","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":50052804641107,"sku":"XG81838933654","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47975934984531,"sku":"XV81838933654","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42189977157817,"sku":"9781838933654","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/carson-ciaran-ciaran-carson-the-star-factory-2019-paperback-60626310824275.jpg?v=1736269716","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/star-factory-pb-z44","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}