{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "An acclaimed author interweaves history and legend to re-create the life of a complex man of faith fifteen hundred years ago. Winner of the 1987 Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles-Lettres."}, "title": "Brendan", "covers": [4177028], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "ERC said the night the boy was born he saw the woods by the boy's house catch fire."}, "subject_places": ["America", "Ireland"], "first_publish_date": "1987", "subject_people": ["Brendan Saint, the Voyager (ca. 483-577)"], "key": "/works/OL12928W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL22593A"}}], "subject_times": ["To 1172"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "History", "Christian saints", "Discoveries in geography", "Discovery and exploration", "Explorers", "Nonfiction", "Religion & Spirituality", "Fiction, general", "New York Times reviewed", "Fiction, historical, general", "Ireland, fiction", "Irish"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/09/books/st-patrick-monkeys-around.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-08T16:26:35.916464"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-05-18T01:48:20.498787"}}