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Zusatztext This many-layered reminiscence glints across the indifferent! mysterious! yet comfortable countryside! classrooms fraught with the usual student shenanigans and insecurities and the intensity of Devlin's close relationship with her five sisters. Informationen zum Autor Polly Devlin is a writer, broadcaster and filmmaker. She holds an OBE for services to literature. After spending her childhood in Northern Ireland, at the age of twenty-two she took up her first job - as a writer, and soon a features editor for British Vogue in London . A couple of years later, she moved to New York to work on American Vogue - where, once more, she was very much part of the scene she wrote about in her newspaper column and articles including for The Sunday Times , New Statesman and Observer . Her first book, All of Us There is a Virago Modern Classic. She divides her time between London and New York where until her recent retirement, she taught Creative Non-Fiction at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has also been a judge for various awards which include the Booker Prize (1984), Irish Times Literary Award (1994) and Pushkin Prize (1998). Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an award-winning writer, living in Canada with her family. Her novels are Room , The Sealed Letter , Landing , Life Mask , Slammerkin , Hood and Stir-fry ; short-story collections Astray , Three and a Half Deaths (UK ebook), Touchy Subjects , The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits , and Kissing the Witch ; and literary history including Inseparable , We Are Michael Field , and Passions Between Women as well as two anthologies that span the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Frog Music , her new novel, comes out in Spring 2014. Polly Devlin grew up in County Tyrone, on the shores of Lough Neagh, in the fifties -- but it might as well have been another time and place altogether. In this memoir she describes in witty, spontaneous and idiosyncratic prose her life as one of seven siblings in a Catholic family in Northern Ireland. 'A brooding, evocative study of Irish childhood, of the strong bonds of love and jealousy that sisters especially feel, the guilt-ridden pressures of religion, the magical countryside, the eccentric villagers. A hauntingly lovely work ...beautifully written with poetic intensity which seems to encapsulate the Irish character with all its wit and bitterness and gift for words' HOMES AND GARDENS Vorwort A beautifully written memoir of growing up Catholic in Northern Ireland. Zusammenfassung A beautifully written memoir of growing up Catholic in Northern Ireland....
