Carn: PAPERBACK - Softcover

McCabe, Patrick

 
9780385315852: Carn: PAPERBACK
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0385315856 ISBN 13: 9780385315852
Verlag: Delta, 1997

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Josie Keenan, who has returned to her provincial hometown, and factory worker Sadie Rooney, who dreams of leaving, strike up a friendship that is fueled by their hopes to better their lives and their need to confront difficult truths. Reprint.

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Patrick McCabe was born in Ireland in 1955. His novels include Music on Clinton Street, Carn, The Butcher Boy, and Breakfast on Pluto. The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Butcher Boy won the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize in 1992 and was made into a film, directed by Neil Jordan, in 1997. The film Breakfast on Pluto, also directed by and co-written with Neil Jordan, was released in 2006 to great acclaim. His play Frank Pig Says Hello was published by Methuen Drama in Far From the Land: New Irish Plays in 1998. Patrick McCabe lives in his home town of Clones, County Monaghan.

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be, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called "one of the most brilliant writers ever to come out of Ireland," presents another compelling novel of small-town Ireland that leaves its indelible mark on the canon of classic fiction. Carn is the story of two women; Josie Keenan, who returns to Carn, Ireland, the provincial hometown she once left behind, and Sadie Rooney, a factory worker who dreams of leaving. As the two women strike up a friendship--fueled by hopes to better their lives, yet inextricably tied to the tenuous fate of Carn--each must confront the hard truths of her past and future. And despite its own attempt to thrive, the town itself cannot escape the daily reminders of Ireland's endless legacy of violence and unrest.



Written in the raw, unsparing prose that marks McCabe's fiction, Carn is the timeless story of a small town struggling to break away from its bleak past, and the lives of two women aching to escape the forces that

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Verlag
Delta
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385315856
ISBN 13 
9780385315852
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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