The Walking People - Couverture souple

Keane, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0547336128 ISBN 13 : 9780547336121

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Keane Mary Beth

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"[R]ichly moving ... Keane gives her characters range and complexity so that there are no victims or villains. Sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes joyous and tender--one of those stories that lingers in the reader's memory as a lived experience." --Kirkus

"Keane has written a novel in the old manner, full of plot points and reversals and revelations, and she's done so with so much skill that there can be no doubt that her voice will only strengthen and dazzle with each new book." --Irish Voice

"In her debut, Keane marries a deliciously old-fashioned style of storytelling with a fresh take on the immigrant experience. ... Tracking the family from 1956 to the present, Keane gives a heartfelt account of their pain and their joy while also minutely exploring varied settings and occupations. A warm, involving family drama that makes a triumph of Greta's transformation from misfit to capable wife and mother." --Booklist

"Debut author Keane offers an extended meditation on leaving, finding and making home in a novel focused on the new Irish immigrant experience. ... Greta is an appealing character lacking in nostalgia. Her romance is also authentic and unsentimental ... her coming-of-age reflects a fresh take on the lives recent immigrants can create." --Publishers Weekly

"Mary Beth Keane has produced a compelling drama of transatlantic Irish life, told with a truthfulness that is felt not only in the sweep and charm of the story but in its very sentences. The Walking People is an irresistible blend of narrative and syntactic authenticity." --Billy Collins, United States Poet Laureate 2001–2003

"Mary Beth Keane's The Walking People is a marvel of originality and accomplishment. It introduces us to lives that are at once entirely unfamiliar and yet completely resonant. Keane writes about Ireland and the Irish in a completely new way; she explores the situation of "new" immigrants with a Balzacian eye for detail and the implications of class, money, and social situation. At the same time, she writes with a style that is simultaneously pellucid and poetic; many worlds come clear to us, the underworld of the "sandhogs," the countryside of the West of Ireland, the camps of the travelers, the counters of Macy's and Bloomingdales. This is an astonishing debut, and it marks the appearance of a truly major writer." --Mary Gordon, author of Circling My Mother

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living. Though she longs to return and show her family what she has made of herself, her decision to spare her children knowledge of a secret in her past forces her to keep her life in New York separate from the life she once loved in Ireland, and tears her apart from the people she is closest to. Even fifty years later, when the Ireland of her memory bears little resemblance to that of present day, she fears that it is still possible to lose all when she discovers that her children—with the best of intentions— have conspired to unite the worlds she’s so carefully kept separate for decades. A beautifully old-fashioned novel, The Walking People has remarkable range and power.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547336128
• ISBN 13: 9780547336121
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416