{"product_id":"the-star-factory","title":"The Star Factory","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Ireland's most celebrated writers, musicians, and powers, Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast and has spent his life there. In \u003cem\u003eThe Star Factory\u003c\/em\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. Belfast has seen transformation: once the fifth-greatest industrial city in the world, the home of the S.S. \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\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. Through it has experienced more that 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Star Factory\u003c\/em\u003e is an elegy of magical power and enduring love, a world of passion and precision, and sure to be considered one of the finest books about Ireland ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48025220055218,"sku":"Hist. Fic","price":11.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/7274\/0786\/files\/9781559704656.jpg?v=1788981174","url":"https:\/\/thebookstoreinpinecity.com\/products\/the-star-factory","provider":"The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}