Life Sentences: the unforgettable Irish bestseller - Softcover

O'Callaghan, Billy

 
9781787332454: Life Sentences: the unforgettable Irish bestseller
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1787332454 ISBN 13: 9781787332454
Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2021

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*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*
*A SINÉAD & RICK 'MUST READS' PICK*

An unforgettable tale of love, abandonment, hunger and redemption, from a rising star of Irish fiction

'Eminently readable . . . My book of the year so far' RYAN TUBRIDY

*****

At just sixteen, Nancy leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the Great Famine. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she is irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair and a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations. Spanning more than a century, Life Sentences is the unforgettable journey of a family hungry for redemption, and determined against all odds to be free.

This sweeping story of one family's fight for survival goes on making the heart lurch long after the final page, and confirms Billy O'Callaghan as one of the finest living Irish writers.

*****

'O'Callaghan is one of our finest writers . . . and this is his best work yet' JOHN BANVILLE

'Stops you in your tracks so you can savour its utter beauty' ANNE GRIFFIN

'Momentous and epic storytelling' BERNARD MACLAVERTY

'So good and true it feels almost magical' SADIE JONES

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Billy O'Callaghan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel My Coney Island Baby, which has been translated into nine languages and was shortlisted for the Encore Award 2020. Stories in his short-story collection The Boatman and Other Stories were shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award and for Writie.ie Short Story of the Year in the An Post Irish Book Awards. He lives in Douglas, a village on the edge of Cork City.

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Life Sentences is the sweeping and immersive story of one ordinary family in Ireland, and their extraordinary journey over three generations and more than a century of famine, war, violence and love. At sixteen Nancy leaves her small island for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she feels irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair that soon throws her into a fight for her life. In 1920, Nancy's son Jer has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail cell, he struggles to piece together where he has come from, and who he wants to be. And in the early 1980s, Jer's youngest child Nellie is nearing the end of her life in a council house, moments away from her childhood home; remembering the night when she and her family stole back something that was rightfully theirs, she imagines what lies in store for those who will survive her. A taut domestic drama of epic emotional scope, and a moving portrait of life in Ireland throughout modern history, this novel goes on making the heart lurch long after the final page. Set in the village where Billy O'Callaghan's family has lived for generations, it is partly based on stories told by his parents and grandparents. His writing is imbued with truth and lived experience - creating a novel so rich in life and empathy it is impossible to let go of his characters.

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Verlag
Jonathan Cape
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1787332454
ISBN 13 
9781787332454
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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