Desmond Hogan

The Leaves on Grey (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'To seek the beginning is to go back a long time ago, when the town in which I am writing was a little different and trees hung at the end of the town, trees hung obsessively, many trees, much green at the end of the street come summer, come the arrival of leaves and sun and buttercup blaze.' It is the late 1940s, and Sean and Liam, middle-class boys in a small West of Ireland town, share a powerful bond of love and rivalry: each long for the same women. At university together in Dublin, Sean and Liam's burgeoning sexuality leads them to a deeper, almost mystical level of involvement. They befriend Christine, rich, vulnerable and desperate for affection, and Sarah, glamorous, spoiled, intoxicating; her body is a seductive bridge between the pair, which they ultimately cross with painful and profound consequences. The Leaves on Grey is the story of Ireland, maker of wounds, tormentor of youth, ultimately breaker of all that was sensitive and enriched by sun, rain, wind. Sean and Liam, and the men and women who become part of their lives, are both the creators and victims of their birthright. This sensitive, passionate story is Desmond Hogan's second novel, originally published in 1980. It is reissued here with a new afterword by the author. 'Lost innocence, the young and the bright and the beautiful shining and dancing before dusk, is the theme ... Hardly new material, but to it Mr Hogan - one of the most talented writers lately to come out of Ireland or anywhere else - brings a light so brilliant that almost every word dazzles.' JANICE ELLIOTT, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Desmond Hogan establishes himself among the best novelists with The Leaves on Grey. He has a lot to say, which he does with elegance and maturity ... his language is succinct and utterly fresh. He wishes fiction to be a moral force, and his could be.' MYRNA BLUMBERG, THE TIMES 'A free-ranging, ambitious and poetic talent ... whose intensity and individuality of vision, though learned and strengthened in Ireland, will give him a significance of a wholly universal kind.' PAUL BINDING, BOOKS AND BOOKMEN

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Lilliput Press
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781843516262
• Artikelnr.: 40632013

Autorenporträt

Desmond Hogan is the author of The Ikon Maker, A Curious Street, A New Shirt, and A Farewell to Prague. His short-story collection The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea won the 1980 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize; others include Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories, Old Swords and Other Stories, and House of Mourning and Other Stories. In 1971 he won the Hennessy Literary Award, in 1977 the Rooney Prize for Literature, and in 1991 was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin. Editions Grasset & Fasquelle in Paris have acquired all his works for translation into French, embarking in 2015 and concluding in 2022.