{"product_id":"required-reading-gary-mcilroy-9798992374285","title":"Required Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in the 1980s, this novel follows Martin Langley, a graduate student and then professor whose faith in academic life is unraveling. He comes to the profession with a belief in books, teaching, and honest inquiry, but finds himself in a world increasingly shaped by departmental quarrels, stubborn orthodoxies, and institutional politics. Gradually, the life he had worked so hard to enter begins to feel less like a calling than a compromise. He grows estranged from his mentors and students, and from the ideals that first drew him to teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an unexpected inheritance brings him north to a dilapidated house on the Michigan coast, Martin imagines the move as a temporary retreat. Instead, it becomes a reckoning. Faced with repairs he barely knows how to make and a town in no hurry to accept him, he is forced to confront the limits of his detachment. His growing bond with Clara, a woman shaped by early hardship and betrayal, leads him into forms of care and responsibility no seminar ever prepared him for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary McIlroy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798992374285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oscar Communications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Gary McIlroy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874771382527,"sku":"9798992374285","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/required-reading-gary-mcilroy-9798992374285","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}