{"product_id":"longing-for-elsewhere-my-irish-voyage-through-hunger-history-and-high-times-paperback","title":"Longing for Elsewhere: My Irish Voyage Through Hunger, History and High Times - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenee Gibbons\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 7.99 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47508599734450,"sku":"9780615554884","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/bpfGwap6jY9780615554884.webp?v=1779611709","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/longing-for-elsewhere-my-irish-voyage-through-hunger-history-and-high-times-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}