This Is the Way
A Irish Literature, European Literature, Fiction book. This novel fits into a tradition that, to me at least...
A mesmerizing tale of a young man on the run in Dublin, from a startling new voice in Irish fictionAnthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement house in Dublin. He fears he’s reignited an ancient feud between the two halves of his family: twenty-first-century Dublin may have shopping malls and foreign exchange students, but Anthony is from an Irish Travelling community, where blood ties are bound deeply to the past.When his roguish uncle Arthur shows up on his doorstep with a missing toe, delirious and apparently on the run, history and its troubles are following close behind him—and Anthony will soon have to face the question of who he really is.In prose of exceptional vividness, Gavin Corbett brings us a narrator with the power to build a new, previously unimagined world. His language, shot through with dreams and myths, summons a vision of Ireland in which a premodern spirit has somehow survived into contemporary life, brooding and...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780865478916 / 0
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Anthony's is a new voice in literature; he is the son of a Sonaghan and a Gilleroo, a pair of families who's feud is so old that only fables remain of its origin. He has come to Dublin to keep a low profile, and lives in fear of meeting one of his hostile cousins. Joined by his uncle, Arthur, he looks back at the events that have brought... This novel fits into a tradition that, to me at least feels far more American than Irish though maybe its traveller characters have more in common with those from the American west than they do with their Irish compatriots. Tonally and in parts stylistically this reminds me of Shepherd, Albee and most of all Cormac McCarthy in this... set in 21st century dublin, but told through a young man hiding from his irish traveler family, they want to kill him (and should?) so nice juxtaposition of "tribal" rules and customs and modern life. told in a clumsy, half-literate style (though this comes and goes, from elemental buh buh buh, to relating about many of ireland's literary...
