The Secret Scripture

Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won! among other awards! the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize! the Costa Book of the Year award! the Irish Book Awards Best Novel! the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels! A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008)! shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children. Klappentext Nearing her one-hundredth birthday! Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future! as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent most of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval! she talks with her psychiatrist Dr Grene! and their relationship intensifies. Told through their respective journals! the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory! Roseanne's story becomes an alternative history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance! and yet marked still by love and hope.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Barry
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.10.2008
• EAN: 9780571215300
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21530-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 177 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Faber & Faber Paperbacks; McNulty Family; Faber & Faber Paperbacks; McNulty Family
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)