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Academy Street
EN USISBN: 9781250081674 bzw. 125008167X, in Englisch, Picador USA, Picador USA, Picador USA, gebraucht.
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A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writerTess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely-a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force. It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy. It shows how the signal events of the last half century affect the course of a life lived in New York City. Anne Enright has said that Costello's first collection of stories, The China Factory, "has the feel of work that refused to be abandoned; of stories that were written for the sake of getting something important right. Her writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand" (The Guardian).Academy Street is driven by this same urgency. In sentence after sentence it captures the rhythm and intensity of inner life.
A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writerTess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely-a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force. It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy. It shows how the signal events of the last half century affect the course of a life lived in New York City. Anne Enright has said that Costello's first collection of stories, The China Factory, "has the feel of work that refused to be abandoned; of stories that were written for the sake of getting something important right. Her writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand" (The Guardian).Academy Street is driven by this same urgency. In sentence after sentence it captures the rhythm and intensity of inner life.
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Academy Street: A Novel
EN NWISBN: 9781250081674 bzw. 125008167X, in Englisch, Picador, neu.
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Mary Costello, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Literary, Academy Street: A Novel, With extraordinary devotion, Mary Costello brings to life a woman who would otherwise have faded into oblivion.-J. M. Coetzee WINNER OF THE BORD GÁIS IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A FINALIST FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, AND THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURETess Lohan is the kind of woman we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely-a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with.Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force: It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy, capturing, in sentence after sentence, the rhythm and intensity of inner life.
Mary Costello, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Literary, Academy Street: A Novel, With extraordinary devotion, Mary Costello brings to life a woman who would otherwise have faded into oblivion.-J. M. Coetzee WINNER OF THE BORD GÁIS IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A FINALIST FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, AND THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURETess Lohan is the kind of woman we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely-a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with.Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force: It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy, capturing, in sentence after sentence, the rhythm and intensity of inner life.
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