One Bend for Home - Couverture rigide

Heald, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 186046081X ISBN 13 : 9781860460814

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 1996

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in a small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past bursts in like a blast of raw air.

"I found myself moved to tears by its devastating honesty, quiet lyricism and profound humanity. It's a terrific book." Arminta Wallace, Irish Times

"It hops and jumps through childhood and adolescence to the deaths of his father and mother, mixing the surreal with solid concrete, weaving humourwith a sustained sense of loss...Each page spills over with wonder." Aisling Foster, Independent on Sunday

"The writing is superb, intensely idiomatic without being obscure...the book leaves one with a sense of exhilaration." Catriona Crowe, London Review of Books

Biographie de l'auteur

Dermot Healy was born 1947 in County Westmeath, Ireland and was a novelist, playwright and poet. He won the Hennessy Award (1974 and 1976), the Tom Gallon Award (1983), and the Encore Award (1995). His novels include A Goatsong, Fighting with Shadows and Sudden Times. He lived in County Sligo, Ireland, until his death in 2014.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 186046081X
• ISBN 13: 9781860460814
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible