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The Spinning Heart
One of my favorite Irish books... it's moving, atmospheric and beautiful, and it does a wonderful job...
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One of my favorite Irish books... it's moving, atmospheric and beautiful, and it does a wonderful job of capturing both the time and the intricate, inescapable ways in which small-town lives are interwoven" -- Tana French BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
Irish Book of the Decade, Dublin Book Festival
Winner of The Guardian First Book Award
Winner of the Irish Book Award, Newcomer of the Year and Book of the Year
A Library Journal "Best Book of the Year" An "affecting" portrait of a working-class community in contemporary rural Ireland that is "reminiscent of William Faulker's As I Lay Dying" (The New York Times Book Review) In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds. The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark, and sweetly poignant. Donal Ryan's brilliantly realized debut announces a stunning new voice in fiction.
Author: Donal Ryan
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 02/25/2014
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781586422240
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Finalist
Award: Guardian First Book Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2013
Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 103
Publishers Weekly 01/06/2014
Booklist 01/01/2014 pg. 46
Shelf Awareness 02/28/2014
New York Times Book Review 03/23/2014 pg. 12
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 28
About the Author
Donal Ryan, from Nenagh in County Tipperary, is a recipient of the 2015 European Union Prize for Literature. His first novel, The Spinning Heart, was published to major acclaim. It won the Guardian First Book Award and the Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, The Thing About December, was a finalist for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Donal lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City.
Irish Book of the Decade, Dublin Book Festival
Winner of The Guardian First Book Award
Winner of the Irish Book Award, Newcomer of the Year and Book of the Year
A Library Journal "Best Book of the Year" An "affecting" portrait of a working-class community in contemporary rural Ireland that is "reminiscent of William Faulker's As I Lay Dying" (The New York Times Book Review) In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds. The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark, and sweetly poignant. Donal Ryan's brilliantly realized debut announces a stunning new voice in fiction.
Author: Donal Ryan
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 02/25/2014
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781586422240
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Finalist
Award: Guardian First Book Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2013
Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 103
Publishers Weekly 01/06/2014
Booklist 01/01/2014 pg. 46
Shelf Awareness 02/28/2014
New York Times Book Review 03/23/2014 pg. 12
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 28
About the Author
Donal Ryan, from Nenagh in County Tipperary, is a recipient of the 2015 European Union Prize for Literature. His first novel, The Spinning Heart, was published to major acclaim. It won the Guardian First Book Award and the Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, The Thing About December, was a finalist for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Donal lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City.
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