Cry of Morning - Couverture rigide

Brian-cleeve

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0718107624 ISBN 13 : 9780718107628

Synopsis

This is a novel of the new Irish revolution of money and expensive cars and towering office blocks among the Georgian slums. And of what this revolution has done to Ireland, a country torn out of the nineteenth century and thrown into the 1970s in a dozen bewilderingly brutal years. Brutal for the poor and helpless; bewildering for the old and pious; a country stumbling forwards and looking back, its heart 1 still yearning for a simpler past. A country where politicians, heirs to the dead idealists of 1916, drink champagne with English millionaires and make speeches about the Sacred Irish Language, and saving the Holy West, while in the West the Language dies among the green fields with their crops of rushes, and their grey stone walls.
Behind the swarming characters of this panoramic novel lies the deep background of Ireland's past, all the centuries, the ancient culture, the Faith, the poetry, the legends, the hopeless, heroic challenges to history; a sense of what is being lost while the rich carve up new riches and the poor are quietened with crumbs; what Ireland is sacrificing to see the new aristocracy drive by in their Mercedes and their Rolls. And at the same time a sense that this must happen, even that it ought to happen. So that, of all the people you will meet, the true hero of this story is, on the surface, its principal villain the Developer, Francis O'Rourke, orphan, navvy, self-made property tycoon, a fighting bull of a man, tortured and tormented by his enemies, his allies, his victims, and his own inarticulate desires. He, perhaps, is closest to the heart of the new Ireland, rather than John Lennox, the TV commentator with a social conscience; or Lady Honoria, the socialite Preserver of the past, dragging the enormous wealth of the Gandon family unwillingly into the fight; or Felicity O'Connor, the plump girl from Connemara who writes a play that captures London and enrages Ireland.

Détails de l'édition

• Date d'édition: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0718107624
• ISBN 13: 9780718107628
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible