Islanders - Couverture souple

O'Donnell, Peadar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0853428514 ISBN 13 : 9780853428510

Editeur : The Mercier Press, 1988

Synopsis

'Mr. Peader O'Donnell has, as Mr. Robert Lynd truly says, brought a family to life in his novel Islanders... The curtain is lifted on the rough heroic struggle for existence of a community of Irish fishermen off the western coast, and we are privileged for a brief space to join them in their griefs and pleasures as one of themselves.. It is excellent to find a book in which there is no more straining after effect than there is in the best of Wordsworth's sonnets. There is no hint of mere cleverness from beginning to end' Daily Telegraph

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A powerful novel of life in a small island community in Donegal, written by one of Irelands greatest historical and literary figures: socialist, republican,and novelist, Peadar ODonnellPeadar ODonnell, to my mind, has brought a family to life in Islanders. He has observed men and women, and observed them imaginatively. He knows their phrases, the details of their daily existence, their exhilarations, their sorrows; and out of his knowledge he has built up a home on a Donegal island so real to us that a woman cannot feed the hens or cut a soda cake for the children without making us wish that wewere there to see her. from the introduction by Robert Lynd

Biographie de l'auteur

Peadar ODonnell was born in Meenamore, Donegal in 1893 and trained as a teacher at St Patricks College, Dublin.With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he joined the IRA and quickly rose through the ranks. He published his first novel, Storm, in 1925, followed by Islanders in 1928. He went on to publish books like The Gates Flew Open (1932)and There Will Be Another Day (1963). In 1946 he became editor of The Bell and remained as its editor until 1954. He died in 1986.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Mercier Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0853428514
• ISBN 13: 9780853428510
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible