{"product_id":"the-silence-of-barbara-synge-bill-mccormack-9780719062797","title":"The Silence of Barbara Synge","description":"The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (née Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKey events in the family's history are carefully documented, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play, the effects of the famine which influenced 'The playboy of the western world' in 1907, and the behaviour of Francis Synge at the time of the union. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'The silence of Barbara Synge' is a unique work of cultural enquiry, combining archival research, literary criticism, and religious and medical history to pull the strands together and relate them to the family's literary descendent J.M. Synge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill McCormack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0719062799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780719062797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d","brand":"Bill McCormack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48457705226495,"sku":"9780719062797","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe8cd7c6-92f9-4bcc-bf07-78484872ff29.jpg?v=1777400568","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-silence-of-barbara-synge-bill-mccormack-9780719062797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}