That They May Face the Rising Sun: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ - Couverture souple

McGahern, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571225721 ISBN 13 : 9780571225729

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2009

Synopsis

Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted Irish author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer) - 'wise and compelling ... elegiac and graceful' (David Mitchell) - by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel)

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. We are introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence - an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere.

'McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.' John Updike
'I have admired, even loved, John McGahern's work since his first novel.' Melvyn Bragg

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Born in 1934, John McGahern was the eldest of seven children. Raised on a farm in the West of Ireland, he was the son of a Garda sergeant who had served as an IRA volunteer in the Irish War of Independence; his mother died when he was nine. He became a primary school teacher in Dublin but was dismissed when his second novel, The Dark, was banned in 1965 for 'obscene' content. Living subsequently between London, Paris and upstate New York, he and his second wife Madeline Green eventually settled back in his native Leitrim in the early 1970s. The author of six acclaimed novels and four story collections, McGahern was shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize for Amongst Women and awarded the Irish PEN Award, the Prix Ecureuil de Littérature Etrangère and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He died in 2006.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted Irish author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer) - 'wise and compelling ...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571225721
• ISBN 13: 9780571225729
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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