{"title":"Randy Boyagoda","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"original-prin-book-randy-boyagoda-9781771962452","title":"Original Prin","description":"An uproarious novel about academia, family, fatherhood, the trials of Catholic faith in a secular world. With seahorses.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585785471249,"sku":"GOR011032692","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940104610065,"sku":"CIN1771962453G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940637384977,"sku":"CIN1771962453VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51051358683409,"sku":"NIN9781771962452","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52688588669201,"sku":"NLS9781771962452","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1771962453.jpg?v=1751433045"},{"product_id":"beggar-s-feast-book-randy-boyagoda-9780241001547","title":"Beggar's Feast","description":"Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in the heart of Ceylon and abandoned by his family ten years later at the gates of a remote temple, resolves to make his own luck amongst the cheats and chancers of the world. He marries a nobleman's daughter and coldly pursues a life of wealth, prestige, and power.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591775199505,"sku":"GOR005448604","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49653160902929,"sku":"GOR013118768","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346182148369,"sku":"CIN0241001544G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0241001544.jpg?v=1751450714"},{"product_id":"governor-of-the-northern-province-book-randy-boyagoda-9780143050926","title":"Governor Of The Northern Province","description":"Books in the popular Easy Way series present basic subject matter in clear language. Material is presented in a way that makes these books ideal as self-teaching guides, but Easy Way titles are also preferred by many teachers as supplements to classroom textbooks. General readers seeking out information often turn to Easy Way titles for general background and orientation when starting out in new career-related fields. All Easy Way books contain both short quizzes and longer tests with answers to help readers gauge their learning progress. Subject heads and key phrases are set in a second color for quick and easy reference. This all-new title discusses, analyzes, and offers exercises in prose forms. It describes uses of written verbal imagery and symbolism and instructs on descriptive and dramatic writing, with sample passages to demonstrate good style.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49645696418065,"sku":"GOR013631586","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143050923.jpg?v=1751036710"},{"product_id":"dante-s-indiana-book-randy-boyagoda-9781771964272","title":"Dante's Indiana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A Divine Comedy of our times.\"--John Irving, author of The World According to Garp\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a miracle.\"--Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2022 ReLit Award Finalist * \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eA Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing Original Prin, a NYTBR Editor's Choice and Globe and Mail Best Book, Dante's Indiana is an extraordinary journey through the divine comedies and tragedies of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiddle-aged, married, but living on his own, Prin has lost his way. Desperate for money and purpose, he moves to small-town Indiana to work for an evangelical millionaire who's building a theme park inspired by Dante's Inferno. He quickly becomes involved in the difficult lives of his co-workers and in the wider struggles of their opioid-ravaged community while trying to reconcile with his distant wife and distant God. Both projects spin out of control, and when a Black teenager is killed, creationists, politicians and protesters alike descend. In the midst of this American chaos, Prin risks everything to help the lost and angry souls around him while searching for his own way home. Affecting and strange, intimate and big-hearted, Dante's Indiana is a darkly divine comedy for our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49895608549649,"sku":"CIN1771964278VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50274058567953,"sku":"CIN1771964278G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51051189502225,"sku":"NIN9781771964272","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":51853586235665,"sku":"CIN1771964278LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1771964278.jpg?v=1751247212"},{"product_id":"richard-john-neuhaus-book-randy-boyagoda-9780307953964","title":"Richard John Neuhaus","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347018977553,"sku":"CIN0307953963A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694411776273,"sku":"CIN0307953963VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694976991505,"sku":"CIN0307953963G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307953963.jpg?v=1751164957"},{"product_id":"beggar-s-feast-book-randy-boyagoda-9789558897232","title":"Beggar's Feast","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51123375931665,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51123378553105,"sku":"GOR014180752","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/955889723X.jpg?v=1750871888"},{"product_id":"little-sanctuary-book-randy-boyagoda-9781990598357","title":"Little Sanctuary","description":"LITTLE SANCTUARY is the story of children from the global south living in a world that is falling apart, wracked by war. They are sent to a school serving as refuge on a distant island by their affluent parents, where they harbour growing suspicions and grave concerns about the people caring for them. After teenaged Sabel and her siblings witness unexpected violence, they must rally the others and plot an escape.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51384632312081,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51384633295121,"sku":"NIN9781990598357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51783836631313,"sku":"NGR9781990598357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1990598358.jpg?v=1754489697"},{"product_id":"on-fatherhood-book-randy-boyagoda-9781771964791","title":"On Fatherhood","description":"Wordsworth wrote that the child is the father to the man, and in On Fatherhood, Randy Boyagoda asks why that might be. Matching his own personal experience--he has four daughters and cares for his own eighty-year old father--to a great array of reading and watching, On Fatherhood is a wide-ranging exploration of the joyful difficulties, and difficult joys, of being a father in the twenty-first century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51631003009297,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51631003205905,"sku":"NGR9781771964791","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1771964790.jpg?v=1751216339"},{"product_id":"race-immigration-and-american-identity-in-the-fiction-of-salman-rushdie-ralph-el-book-randy-boyagoda-9780415979849","title":"Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner","description":"Read together, novels from a contemporary world writer (Salman Rushdie) and two modern American authors (Faulkner and Ellision) depict a century-long transformation of how American identity and experience have been conceived and imagined; these changes are revealed in the fiction of encounters between immigrants and natives.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52522053337361,"sku":"NLS9780415979849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53035017797905,"sku":"NIN9780415979849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780415979849.jpg?v=1760574635"},{"product_id":"race-immigration-and-american-identity-in-the-fiction-of-salman-rushdie-ralph-el-book-randy-boyagoda-9780415875783","title":"Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner","description":"Read together, novels from a contemporary world writer (Salman Rushdie) and two modern American authors (Faulkner and Ellision) depict a century-long transformation of how American identity and experience have been conceived and imagined; these changes are revealed in the fiction of encounters between immigrants and natives.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52538861289745,"sku":"NLS9780415875783","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780415875783.jpg?v=1760683405"},{"product_id":"beggar-s-feast-book-randy-boyagoda-9780670066582","title":"Beggar's Feast","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52722270896401,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52722271256849,"sku":"CIN0670066583VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780670066582.jpg?v=1763015327"},{"product_id":"lords-of-serendipity-book-randy-boyagoda-9780063572034","title":"Lords of Serendipity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A book that's a feast, an occasion and a celebration. Randy Boyagoda delightfully skewers the industrial-academic complex but also creates moving characters who seem to have walked in from the dorm and faculty meeting next door. The result is as moving as it is hysterically funny.\" --Gary Shteyngart, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eVera, or Faith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn epic campus novel about the hopes and hypocrisies of 21st-century higher education, from one of Canada's most celebrated literary novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Devi's father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter's tutoring by a dapper young Indian man who might not be the Oxford student he claims to be on WhatsApp. Katrina's father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter's academic lifestyle experiences. Meanwhile, his tech bro TA expertly extorts money from international students worried about failing school and getting in trouble with their parents and also deported.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet between contemporary Sri Lanka and the United States, \u003ci\u003eLords of Serendipity\u003c\/i\u003e is a wry, moving, and sharply observed story about how rich and poor alike try to get ahead by going to university. It's about dreams and ambition meeting corruption and hypocrisy. It's about what parents are willing to do for their children, and about what strivers and hustlers are willing to do when they meet gatekeepers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the 21st-century global campus novel, a story about two teenage girls from opposite sides of the world with the same dream: four (ok maybe five) years in a quadrangle-shaped paradise that offers lots of super amazing courses and super amazing protests. The novel couldn't be more timely in this absurd and perilous-feeling moment for both American life and college life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Randy Boyagoda's \u003ci\u003eLords of Serendipity\u003c\/i\u003e is utterly fantastic and timely beyond belief. This is the campus novel we've all been waiting for: tender, eviscerating, perfect.\" --Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53720023335185,"sku":"NGR9780063572034","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780063572034.jpg?v=1782780215"},{"product_id":"lords-of-serendipity-book-randy-boyagoda-9780063474857","title":"Lords of Serendipity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A book that's a feast, an occasion and a celebration. Randy Boyagoda delightfully skewers the industrial-academic complex but also creates moving characters who seem to have walked in from the dorm and faculty meeting next door. The result is as moving as it is hysterically funny.\" --Gary Shteyngart, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eVera, or Faith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn epic campus novel about the hopes and hypocrisies of 21st-century higher education, from one of Canada's most celebrated literary novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Devi's father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter's Indian tutor, who might not be the Oxford student he claims to be on WhatsApp. Katrina's father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter's academic lifestyle experiences. Meanwhile, his tech-bro TA expertly extorts money from international students worried about flunking and getting deported.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet between contemporary Sri Lanka and the United States, \u003ci\u003eLords of Serendipity\u003c\/i\u003e is a wry, moving, and sharply observed story about how rich and poor alike try to get ahead by going to university. It's about dreams and ambition meeting corruption and hypocrisy. It's about what parents are willing to do for their children, and about what strivers and hustlers are willing to do when they meet gatekeepers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the 21st-century global campus novel, a story about two teenage girls from opposite sides of the world with the same dream: four years in a quadrangle-shaped paradise that offers lots of super amazing courses and super amazing protests. The novel couldn't be more timely in this absurd and perilous-feeling moment for both American life and higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Randy Boyagoda's \u003ci\u003eLords of Serendipity\u003c\/i\u003e is utterly fantastic and timely beyond belief. This is the campus novel we've all been waiting for: tender, eviscerating, perfect.\" --Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53720078844177,"sku":"NGR9780063474857","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780063474857.jpg?v=1782780451"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-randy-boyagoda.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}