Academy Street ( en anglais) - Couverture souple

Costello, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782114203 ISBN 13 : 9781782114208

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2015

Synopsis

186 Pages Bon état Couv. convenable Intérieur frais In-8 Carré Broché Traduit de l'anglais par M. NASALIK

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

I read Academy Street cover to cover in one night, unable to stop. It is a short novel about a long life, stretching from rural Ireland to post-9/11 New York, and brings to mind the elegance of Colm Toibin and the insight of Alice Munro. Its stealthy, quiet power will exert a hold over any reader (MAGGIE O'FARRELL)

To recount a life story in a novel is a difficult task. To do so with brevity and unsentimental honesty takes greatness. Academy Street is a powerful and emotional novel from one of literature's finest new voices (JOHN BOYNE)

Academy Street is understated, graceful and, ultimately, devastating. Even as my heart was breaking I couldn't put the book down (DONAL RYAN, author of The Spinning Heart)

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realised characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book (RON RASH)

With extraordinary devotion, Mary Costello brings to life a woman who would otherwise have faded into oblivion amid the legions of the meek and the unobtrusive (J.M. COETZEE)

Mary Costello's writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand - call them themes; they are the kind of problems that make a writer (ANNE ENRIGHT Guardian)

Exquisite . . . so intricately wrought, so unique and enthralling as to be utterly bewitching (Lorraine Courtney Sunday Independent (on The China Factory))

These stories want all of you, mind and body and soul, like a consummation (Sonya Chung The Millions (on The China Factory)) --Maggie O'Farrell

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Tess Lohan appears to be a quiet child. But within lies a heart of fire. A fire that will propel her from her native Ireland into the hurly-burly of 1960s New York. In this city she will face the twists of a life graced with great beauty, but forever floating close to hazard. Joyous and heart-breaking, Academy Street journeys through six decades and one incredible story.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782114203
• ISBN 13: 9781782114208
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192