{"product_id":"plaguing-jake-gerald-lynch-9781998779390","title":"Plaguing Jake","description":"Mary McGahern goes off to university from the small town of Leitrim Falls. Mary was mostly schooled at home by a self-taught, highly literate, widower farmer father, which has always made her an oddity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Jake Flynn, nearing retirement, despairs of contemporary higher education in English Literature, which has moved away from reading and studying the best that has been thought and written to viewing literature as valuable only to the extent that it contributes to improving the world. Mary becomes Professor Flynn's student in two courses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe English Department's rare, autographed edition of Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003eis stolen from a display case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetective Gurmeet finds that Jake Flynn stole the rare edition of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e. While being examined for mental competency in the Princess Diana Mental Health Center, Jake commits suicide. Mary's father is killed in a car accident and she returns home to see to the farm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn equal parts Joyce and Hemmingway, \u003ci\u003ePlaguing Jake\u003c\/i\u003e heralds a powerful return to literary storytelling and captures and essential Canadian narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald Lynch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1998779394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781998779390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e At Bay Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Gerald Lynch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46293075460351,"sku":"9781998779390","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e64e5e1d-7e53-4f96-9795-caf8474330df.jpg?v=1730212053","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plaguing-jake-gerald-lynch-9781998779390","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}