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Barry, Sebastian

 
9780571239610: The Secret Scripture
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ISBN 10: 0571239617 ISBN 13: 9780571239610
Editorial: Faber and Faber, 2008

Sinopsis

A beautiful and moving novel of a remarkable woman's stolen life.

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Acerca del autor

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.

De la contraportada

'I once lived among humankind, and found them in their generality to be cruel and cold, and yet could mention the names of three or four that were like angels. I suppose we measure the importance of our days by those few angels we spy among us . . .' Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her one-hundredth birthday - no one is quite sure - 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. Exquisitely written, it is the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope. 'Barry proves once again that the artist makes the best historian, and that the tragic figures who are wrong-footed by history, provide the most compelling accounts of the past.' Hugo Hamilton

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Editorial
Faber and Faber
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0571239617
ISBN 13 
9780571239610
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
304
Contacto del fabricante
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ISBN 10:  0571323952 ISBN 13:  9780571323951
Editorial: Faber & Faber, 2015
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