The Speckled People - Couverture souple

Hamilton, Hugo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007148119 ISBN 13 : 9780007148110

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

5th ed, 2004. Good copy has some spotting starting on prelims.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“An astonishing achievement...a landmark in Irish nonfiction...a masterpiece.” (Washington Post)

“A fine reminder that there are many ways of being Irish.” (New York Newsday)

“Hamilton’s most successful book to date, after building up a fine reputation as a novelist.” (Irish Voice)

“Unlike most Irish memoirs, this one is devoid of sentimentality. Which doesn’t make it any the less heartrending. ” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

“A complex and layered story, intriguingly different from all those other Irish-childhood memoirs.” (Orlando Sentinel)

“Never clichéd, thanks largely to Hamilton’s frankly poetic language and masterful portait of childhood...a beautiful memoir.” (Publishers Weekly)

“An astonishing account, both delicate and strong, of great issues of twentieth-century Europe, modern Ireland, and family everywhere.” (Nuala O'Faolain)

“A wonderful, subtle, problematic and humane book....about Ireland...about a particular family...about alternatives and complexities anywhere.” (Irish Times)

“Evocative, agitating and inspiriting, Speckled People sticks up for diversity and principled dissent...extending the scope of Irish memoir.” (Independent)

“A memoir of childhood that often reads like a craftily composed work of fiction.” (Daily Telegraph (London))

“The most gripping book I’ve read in ages...a fascinating, disturbing and often very funny memoir.” (Roddy Doyle)

“A prize—delicate, achingly well-observed and wonderfully moving.” (A.L. Kennedy)

“A masterful piece of work—timely, inventive, provocative and perfectly weighted. Don’t be surprised if it becomes a classic.” (Colum McCann)

“A memoir of warmth and wisdom...tender and profound and, best of all, tells the truth. I loved it.” (Patrick McCabe)

“Full of several different kinds of passion with a real tragedy at its heart.” (Margaret Forster)

“A fine and timely book from an exquisitely gifted writer...beautiful, subtle, unflashy, perfectly realized and quite extraordinarily powerful.” (Joseph O’Connor)

“The long wait for this most talented novelist to cast his eye over his homeland has been worth it.” (GQ)

“Hamilton’s style is an engaging mix of the salty and literary.” (New York Times Book Review)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war, encourages them to speak German. All Hugo wants to do is speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt down Hugo (or 'Eichmann' as they dub him) in the streets of Dublin, and English is what they use when they bring him to trial and execute him at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear and confusion Hugo tries to build a balanced view of the world, to turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before this little boy has uncovered the dark and long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents' wardrobe.In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland since Patrick McCabe's THE BUTCHER BOY and Seamus Deane's READING IN THE DARK, acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0007148119
• ISBN 13: 9780007148110
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304