Colours Other Than Blue - Couverture souple

Glavin, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178199918X ISBN 13 : 9781781999189

Editeur : Ward River Press, 2016

Synopsis

Maeve Maguire, single mother of a teenage daughter, works as the Senior Nurse in a Dublin Home for the Elderly. Grieving over her father s recent death, she begins to keep a notebook at the prompting of her sagacious counsellor Sister Úna, who suggests she write down memories of her Boston childhood, along with whatever else. Reluctantly Maeve begins to bring the past to life, recording memories of growing up in an apartment building on the Boston Common where her Mayo father James worked as Superintendent.

Gradually from her notebook entries there emerges another, more subterranean, sorrow that of the death of her emotionally complex mother Rose, thirteen years before. What s more, Maeve also confronts a handful of other home truths therein: regarding love, single motherhood, and the demanding, if at times comic, challenges of her nursing day-job.

A canny, captivating, humorous portrayal of a Boston-Irish woman s struggle to find her feet, love, and a quotient of tranquillity in 1980s dirty ol Dublin.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Boston-born novelist, short-story writer, and critic Anthony Glavin first came to Ireland in 1974, where he lived in Co Donegal for many years. In 1987, he succeeded David Marcus as editor of New Irish Writing in the Irish Press,and has worked as a commissioning editor for New Island, for whom he edited, among many titles, Nuala O'Faolain s international best-seller Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman, her posthumous A More Complex Truth: Selected Writings of Nuala O'Faolain, and her posthumous novel Best Love, Rosie, as well as King David Dances, A Novella by Francis Stuart, Things You Should Know, A Memoir by John MacKenna and Joseph O'Connor's best-selling The Irish Male at Home and Abroad, The Last of the Irish Males, and His Greatest Hits: The Best of the Irish Male.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ward River Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178199918X
• ISBN 13: 9781781999189
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 402
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible