I COULD READ THE SKY

Timothy O'Grady; Steve Pyke

ISBN 10: 1860463185 / ISBN 13: 9781860463181

Edité par London: The Harvill Press, 1997

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Second printing. Inscription from O'Grady on the title page, signed "Timothy, Evanston 7 April 1998." Otherwise, a fine unmarked copy in a fine fresh dust jacket.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9359

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: I COULD READ THE SKY
• Éditeur: London: The Harvill Press
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1860463185
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781860463181
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This illustrated novel tells the story of a man coming of age in the middle years of this century who leaves Ireland, like so many others, for the promise of English wealth. During his decades of exile, he remembers the potato fields of the West of Ireland and the building sites of England.

Revue de presse

"If the words tell the story of the voiceless, the bleak, lovely photographs that accompany it show their faces... Fiction rarely gets as close to the messy, glorious truth, as do memories and photographs. This rare novel dares to use both" (Charlotte Mendelson Times Literary Supplement)

"Speaks in the manner of an important work of art, memorably and beautifully" (Anthony Cronin Sunday Independent)

"There are not many books [this year] that seem to me written with comparable force [or] depth of feeling" (Dan Jacobson Sunday Telegraph)

"What Pyke and O'Grady have done is read our imagination" (Dermot Healy Sunday Tribune)