Unspoken - Couverture souple

Stembridge, Gerard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906964653 ISBN 13 : 9781906964658

Editeur : Old Street Publishing, 2011

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

PRAISE FOR UNSPOKEN

'A masterly account of the Republic of Ireland in the Sixties . . . conveys to the reader the excitement of the times with an enchanting freshness . . . Stembridge juggles characters and themes seemingly effortlessly, his stories are bedrocked by great humanity, and this huge book is, sadly, over almost before you know it. Wonderful.'
DAILY MAIL

'Absorbing . . . fuses the everyday with the historical . . . Stembridge has been able to capture the powerful shifts in the cultural and political atmosphere of a historic decade'
SUNDAY TIMES (IRISH EDITION)

'Full of human warmth and social detail . . . . Unspoken is about the arrival of modernity, new Ireland versus old . . . Television, pop music, Vatican II, foreign investment, a housing boom: each year some new thing chips away at the comely-maidens-dancing utopia envisioned by the founder of Fianna Fáil . . . [Stembridge] is reminding us that the larger moods of history begin in the small moods of individual moments. And he has done an excellent job of capturing both.'
IRISH TIMES

'Gerry Stembridge is an outstanding, if somewhat unacknowledged, Irish artist . . . Anyone interested in Irish political history will find Dom and Dev's interior monologues utterly fascinating . . . If future volumes are as curious and intriguing as this one, they will be worth the wait'
IRISH INDEPENDENT

'Stembridge embraces an unloved city of the imagination and indeed a period of the entire island with unforgettable detail... Reading Unspoken is like being mesmerised by a story-telling Janus -- all human warmth and compassion from one mouth, cold accuracy and knowingness from the other. A wonderful achievement.'
EUGENE MCCABE

'Unspoken is an evocative and powerful novel. Stembridge demonstrates a particular talent for creating memorable scenes and portraits of characters, public and private, who were hungry to embrace the opportunities of 1960s Ireland but who also had to wrestle with inner turmoil in a country on the cusp of modernisation. As a social, cultural and political history of that decade, Unspoken is authentic, honest and utterly absorbing.'
DIARMAID FERRITER

'In the closing chapters of the book, by some literary sleight of hand, Stembridge manages to intertwine all his characters in a way that makes you genuinely care about them . . . All the historical and personal details had somehow, it seemed, accumulated into a believable whole . . . Emotionally satisfying and worthwhile.'
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST

'A striking portrait of what Ireland used to be and what it is today. Unspoken is a fantastic novel'
BOOKMUNCH

'There is no trace of authorly grumpiness in Unspoken. In fact, for a man who tore self-important politicians asunder with the late Dermot Morgan in the landmark Scrap Saturday radio series, who returned to lampooning a few years ago in TV's The State of Us, and who gave us dark films like Guiltrip in between, his current work is an unexpectedly warm and affectionate portrait of a people and a period, despite their obvious shortcomings.'
IRISH EXAMINER

'One of the most interesting writing minds this country has produced in recent decades . . . Stembridge is a man of formidable talent'
IRISH INDEPENDENT

'A great modern novel about that most infernal of dilemmas the family.'
DOUGLAS KENNEDY --...

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A FAMILY. A DECADE. A NATION.

17 June 1959.It's Election Day in Ireland, but Ann Strong has other things on her mind. Terrified of miscarriage after losing her last baby, she is admitted into the labour ward of St Gerard's hospital. Outside, her husband Fonsie waits anxiously with four other fathers-to-be. Men of their time, they scarcely speak to each other. But their children, born together on this day, will grow up in a changed world that questions and connects.
31 December 1961. Gavin Bloom is floor manager on the first ever live television broadcast in Ireland. It's a prestigious job, but a part of him feels a fraud. Though talking is what he does best, there is one thing Gavin never speaks about -- not even to himself.
10 October 1964. Dom, a brash, clever, reckless politician with a beautiful wife, sees himself as an Irish JFK. When he is prosecuted for drunk driving, his career seems to be over. But then he and the policeman who has charged him come face to face in court. They don't exchange a word, but something happens between them that changes Dom's life and propels him to help change the life of every child in the country.
Unspoken charts the interlocking stories of a group of unforgettable characters through the 1960s, a tumultuous decade during which Ireland threw off some ancient shackles yet assumed other, more modern ones. Alive with character and understated ambition, it is both a magnificent work of literature and an absolute delight.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Old Street Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1906964653
• ISBN 13: 9781906964658
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448