Seán Dunne

In My Father's House (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Seán Dunne's mother died at the age of thirty-three, when he was four years old. In My Father's House, his account of the trials and tests of a childhood in Waterford in the 1960s, touched a communal heart when it was published in 1991, and became a bestseller. This eloquent testimony to one fractured family's capacity to prevail, including the heroic roles enacted by Seán's father, Richie, and their housekeeper, Tessie, unfolds with an understated dignity. Acute loss and vivid recall yield wry and poignant truths. Seán Dunne's disarmingly simply prose scrutinizes social history in an Irish housing-estate, with its stories of tragedy and resilience, through the lens of personal experience. Told with honesty, humour and love, it endures also as the record of a spiritual odyssey and growth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Gallery Press
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781852356408
• Artikelnr.: 42616650

Autorenporträt

Seán Dunne was born in 1956. He graduated from UCC and made his home in Cork where he worked as a journalist with the Cork Examiner. He published three collections of poems, Against the Storm (1985), The Sheltered Nest (Gallery, 1992) and Time and the Island (Gallery, 1996) and a memoir In My Father's House (Gallery, 2000) which was first published in 1991. Among the anthologies he edited are Poets of Munster (1985), The Cork Anthology (1993) and Something Understood (1995). Seán Dunne died in Cork on 3 August 1995. His Collected (2005) is published by The Gallery Press.