{"product_id":"longing-for-elsewhere-my-irish-voyage-through-hunger-history-and-high-times-9780615554884","title":"Longing for Elsewhere: My Irish Voyage Through Hunger, History and High Times","description":"Born in a Dublin tenement in the middle of the 20th Century, this dead-poor, curious Irish girl escaped to Paris when she was 17 with the help of a nun, a Hollywood actor, and a kind stranger. There she was accepted into the emigre community blacklisted in the McCarthy era. She met James Baldwin and Ring Lardner Jr.; Ruth Gordon gave her a fur coat. Still restless and full of dreams she spent years working her way around the world. On a ship bound for Egypt with her year-old daughter Aisling she fell in love with a radical longshoreman from San Francisco. The memoir Longing for Elsewhere explores the themes entangled in her journey: identity, adventure, creativity, the burdens of history, and the passion for justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Renee Gibbons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Renee Gibbons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615554884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenee Gibbons organized her first plays in the back lanes of Dublin when she was 8 years old. She dressed the boys as girls and the real girls played 'The Cowboys'. A former columnist for the Irish Herald she performs a solo show 'You Don't Push the River' based on her experience of breast-cancer. She's worked at thirty different kinds of jobs including courier, photographer, pre-school teacher and model and has spent time in one hundred and fifty countries word-wide. An actor, singer and peace activist, she lives in San Francisco's North Beach with her husband and cat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Renee Gibbons","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40113755619443,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b97c50e8-eeda-4482-953f-f794f54aa901.jpg?v=1653488453","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/longing-for-elsewhere-my-irish-voyage-through-hunger-history-and-high-times-9780615554884","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}