The Pilgrimage - Couverture souple

Broderick, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843510480 ISBN 13 : 9781843510482

Editeur : The Lilliput Press Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Banned on its 1961 release and long overlooked, The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire, secrecy and small‑town conformity. John Broderick’s fearless debut follows Julia Glynn, a respectable wife in an Irish midlands town whose carefully arranged life begins to fracture after a series of anonymous letters expose the frailty of the world she inhabits.

As Julia, her ailing husband, their watchful manservant and an ambitious young doctor prepare for a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the novel plunges into the hypocrisies, longings and unspoken tensions that shape a society crackling with self-awareness and concealed passions.

 

Darkly comic, unsettling and steeped in the atmosphere of 1950s Ireland, The Pilgrimage offers a daring exploration of sexuality, power and self‑deception. Tt stands as a vivid, transgressive classic that feels as provocative, and as essential, as ever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Broderick (1924–1989) was a novelist, critic and patron of the arts, celebrated for his unsparing portraits of Irish provincial life. The only child of a bakery family, he lived for periods in Paris, forming friendships with writers such as Julien Green, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote. His debut novel The Pilgrimage (1961) was banned in Ireland but appeared in the U.S. as The Chameleons, establishing his reputation. A pioneering writer of queer Irish lives, Broderick was contributor to The Irish Times, and was elected to the Irish Academy of Letters in 1968. He died in Bath in 1989, bequething his estate to support the arts of his home town of Athlone.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843510480
• ISBN 13: 9781843510482
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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