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Reading the contemporary Irish novel, 1987-2007 /

By: Harte, Liam.
Series: Reading the novel: Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014Description: x, 264 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444336191 (hardback); 9781444336191:; 1444336193 (hardback); 9781444336207 (paper); 1444336207 (paper).Subject(s): English fiction -- Irish authors -- 21st century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- Irish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 809
Contents:
In the Family Way: Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy (1987-91) -- House Arrest: John McGahern's Amongst Women (1990) -- Uncertain Terms, Unstable Sands: Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing (1992) -- Malignant Shame: Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy (1992) -- Unbearable Proximities: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey (1994) -- History's Hostages: Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation (1996) -- Selfhood Deferred: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark (1996) -- The Politics of Pity: Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way (2005) -- Mourning Remains Unknown: Anne Enright's The Gathering (2007)
Summary: This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last quarter century. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of the country's most critically celebrated and successful writers.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 809 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0091803
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Includes bibliography and index.

In the Family Way: Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy (1987-91) -- House Arrest: John McGahern's Amongst Women (1990) -- Uncertain Terms, Unstable Sands: Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing (1992) -- Malignant Shame: Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy (1992) -- Unbearable Proximities: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey (1994) -- History's Hostages: Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation (1996) -- Selfhood Deferred: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark (1996) -- The Politics of Pity: Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way (2005) -- Mourning Remains Unknown: Anne Enright's The Gathering (2007)

This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last quarter century. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of the country's most critically celebrated and successful writers.

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