Ireland Unhinged - Couverture souple

Monagan, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848271077 ISBN 13 : 9781848271074

Editeur : Transworld Ireland, 2011

Synopsis

A beautifully written, often hilarious cultural search for the heart of Ireland.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A native of Connecticut and veteran journalist, David Monagan moved to Ireland with his wife and three children in 2000, settling in Cork City. He has written widely about his adopted country in various publications, including The Irish Times, the Sunday Independent, The Examiner, The Dubliner magazine, the Sunday Times and Forbes. His previous work of travel literature, Jaywalking with the Irish, was published in 2004 to great acclaim; Frank McCourt called it 'a hard, beautiful book . . . written with love . . . wit, charm and compassion. You won't find a better or truer depiction of Ireland.' He is also the author of Journey into the Heart (2007), a tour-de-force about charismatic medical pioneers.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Where is Ireland's soul? This is the question that surface time and again in Ireland Unhinged, a searching, sometimes scathing, often hilarious journey through a country that in the space of a few years has fallen from the dizzy heights of the 'bouncy-castle' boom to the bewildering depths of the crash.
Ireland Unhinged is a story of reverse emigration to Cork City and then rural Waterford, from cosy US confines to the true Wild West of these last years. David Monagan's sharp eye pinpoints the excesses and absurdities of modern Ireland. But his real search is for the enduring essence of his adopted country, as revealed in his meetings with literary legends, with witches and monks, with property developers and gnomic farmers.
Itis a riveting memoir of a family adapting to a strange land, and an unflinching portrait of Ireland today.
'Ireland Unhinged is incisive, wry and witty, but also coldly surgical, and it repeatedly and perfectly catches the zeitgeist of an Ireland hell-bent on self-destruction. The fact is, David Monagan knows his Ireland. This American-in-Ireland's analysis is also both highly reasoned and grinning - read it.' Patrick McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy and The Stray Sod Country
'Ireland Unhinged is hilarious, it's sad, it's loving. One of the best books about Ireland in these last few years.' Malachy McCourt, actor and author of A Monk Swimming and Singing My Song

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transworld Ireland
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848271077
• ISBN 13: 9781848271074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible