The Secret Scripture

Barry, Sebastian

ISBN 10: 0571239617 / ISBN 13: 9780571239610

Edité par Faber and Faber, London, 2008

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N° de réf. du vendeur G006626

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• Titre: The Secret Scripture
• Éditeur: Faber and Faber, London
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571239617
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571239610
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First Paperback Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by the Author
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • I
  • Irish Literature
  • L42

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Synopsis

Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne's family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character. Exquisitely written, it is also the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

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Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955 and educated at The Catholic University School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was later Writer Fellow in 1996. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys (1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Sligo (1998), and The Pride of Parnell Street (2007), and his novels, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), and most recently A Long Long Way (2005), which was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Dublin International Impac Prize. He has won among other awards the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, and The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali and three children, Merlin, Coral and Tobias.