Annie Dunne

Zusatztext "Annie's passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that's close to poetry-fuel this fine novel."— The New York Times Book Review "A subtle but powerful novel of a spinster's life in the Irish countryside rises to great emotional heights...this is a deliciously poetic book."— The Washington Post "Barry has given us a heroine of delicate complexity in a setting of rugged beauty. His flawless use of language and plot hold the reader rapt from beginning to end. — Jeanne Ray! Boston Herald "Superb...Annie emerges from the novel as one o fthe most memorable women in Irish fiction."— San Francisco Chronicle "As a wordsmith! Barry is at times amazing! his descriptions poetic and insightful."— The Philadelphia Inquirer "Rarely has the precious interaction between the old and the young been captured in such beauty and tenderness...a remarkable novel."— The Christian Science Monitor "Lyrical."— The Miami Herald "Barry's gift for image and metaphor...are equaled here by his eye for descriptive detail."— Publishers Weekly   Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys (1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Sligo (1998), The Pride of Parnell Street (2007), and Dallas Sweetman (2008). Among his novels are The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002) and A Long Long Way (2005), the latter shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His poetry includes The Water-Colourist (1982), Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever (1989) and The Pinkening Boy (2005). His awards include the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, and Costa Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali, and three children, Merlin, Coral, and Tobias. Klappentext "Annie's passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that's close to poetry-fuel this fine novel."-The New York Times Book ReviewSebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah's small farm running. Suddenly, Annie's young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that the two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm. A summer of adventure, pain, delight, and, ultimately, epiphany unfolds for both the children and their caretakers in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, loss, and reconciliation. Chapter One Oh, Kelsha is a distant place, over the mountains from everywhere. You go over the mountains to get there, and eventually, through dreams. *** I can picture the two children in their coats arriving. It is the start of the summer and all the customs of winter and spring are behind us. Not that those customs are tended to now, much. My grand-nephew and grand-niece, titles that sound like the children of a Russian tsar. My crab-apple tree seems to watch over their coming, like a poor man forever waiting for alms with cap in hand. There is a soughing in the beech trees and the ash, and the small music of the hens. Shep prances about like a child at a dance with his extra coat of bog muck and the yellow effluents that leak into yards where dogs like to lie. The children's coats are very nice coats, city coats. Their mother does not neglect the matter of coats, whatever else I could say about her. But they are too n...

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Barry
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.04.2003
• EAN: 9780142002872
• ISBN: 978-0-14-200287-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)