James Bourke

Confessions of an Alien (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Confessions of an Alien is a story about alienation. The narrator, Josh Carew, is an alien in his homeland, Ireland. He is exiled by choice to various parts of the former British Empire, seeking to come to terms with the dilemmas in his life. On his return to Ireland, he describes his moral distress with a frankness and honesty that may shock his readers. He is disenchanted with politics and the galloping secularisation, which he views as the ruination of the country. Being of old Puritan stock, he asserts that only righteousness can uplift the nation. He cannot lie, nor can he accommodate to the mindset of the ungodly and materialistic people who rule the world. He is a pilgrim in an alien land and his confessions describe the dark night of his soul. His musings are a frontal assault on the Modern World and on the ghastly state that he refers to as the 'New Ireland'. Confessions of an Alien is partly a tale of adventure and partly a series of confessions. The story and the confessions are interwoven in a seamless narrative. The frank confessions focus on social, religious, and political issues. Josh sees himself as a moral man who knows the difference between right and wrong. He is shocked to find that the line between right and wrong has disappeared in the New Ireland. He sees a nation that has lost its values and he blames it on rampant greed, corruption, galloping secularism and neo-liberalism. Some readers may not like his rants and internal monologues. His views will probably offend secularists, politicians, churchmen, feminists, and media people. Josh could not care less. He speaks his mind with the forthrightness of an Old Testament prophet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris UK
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514465387
• Artikelnr.: 52570680

Autorenporträt

James Mannes Bourke comes from Dublin. He is a retired university lecturer who specialised in language education (TESL). He has published many academic papers and monographs on various aspects of language education. Since taking retirement in 2008, he has turned to creative writing and published a novel, Under the Alien Sky, and a collection of short stories, Footprints in the Mind. More recently, he has written a second novel, Confessions of an Alien, and two plays for television called Two Plays for Tuppence. He has a special interest in historical fiction, and he is currently working on a collection of stories from Irish history. He hopes to publish more short stories in the coming years based on his many years of working and living in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Few writers have surpassed the author in depicting the colorful and exotic life of the native people in the so-called Third World. He has a special eye for the eccentric and the rare ability to express it in delightful prose. He is a natural storyteller, and his short stories in particular are a joy to read. Dr. Bourke has more than a passing interest in language and language education. He spent over thirty years training future teachers of English as a second language. He is working on an English grammar textbook for ESL students and a primer for teachers of English called Language Awareness for Language Teachers. He still does some consultancy work as an English language (ESL) specialist. Academic qualifications: Diploma in Education, 1960; BA, University College Cork, 1968; MA Applied Linguistics, University of Essex, 1978; PhD, Linguistic Problem-Solving, Trinity College, Dublin, 1992. More information about the author can be found on his, website www.jamesmannesbourke.com.