Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main ed.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780571323951
• ISBN-10: 0571323952
• Artikelnr.: 42104692

Autorenporträt

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.

Rezensionen

'Roseanne McNulty is almost a century old and has been imprisoned in a mental institution in the west of Ireland for many decades. But with the hospital facing closure, her psychiatrist Dr Grene conducts a series of interviews with her to assess her suitability for release into the community. Through the accounts that each of them keep of their meetings, Sebastian Barry allows a horrifying tale of death, duplicity and deception to unfold, as it becomes clear Roseanne has become tragically enmeshed in the tangles web of Ireland's history, politics and religion.' London Review of Books