This is the Way - Couverture souple

Corbett, Gavin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0865478074 ISBN 13 : 9780865478077

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014

Synopsis

From a startling new voice in Irish fiction, a mesmerizing tale of a young man on the run in Dublin

Anthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement house in Dublin: he fears he has reignited an ancient feud between the two halves of his family. Twenty-first-century Dublin may have shopping malls and foreign exchange students, but Anthony is from an Irish Travelling community, where blood ties are bound deeply to the past. When his roguish uncle Arthur shows up on his doorstep with a missing toe, delirious and apparently on the run, history and its troubles are following close behind him--and Anthony will soon have to face the question of who he really is.
In prose of exceptional vividness, Gavin Corbett brings us a narrator with the power to build a new, previously unimagined world. His language, shot through with dreams and myths, summons a vision of Ireland in which a premodern spirit has somehow persisted into contemporary life, brooding and overlooked. Funny, terrible, unsettling, fiercely unsentimental, This Is the Way is haunted by some of Ireland's greatest writers even as it breaks new ground and asks afresh why the imagination is so necessary to survival.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and was raised in Dublin, where he studied history at Trinity College. This Is the Way is his second novel. He lives in Dublin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0865478074
• ISBN 13: 9780865478077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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