The Bitter Glass
A Fiction, Cultural, Ireland book. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 220 pages
- ISBN: 9780907085072 / 907085075
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Rich, young adult children on a train from Dublin headed north into Connemara find that their train is the last to pass bridges that have been destroyed in a Civil War taking place in Ireland. Their parents are unable to follow after them. When they reach their vacation home, the twin babies become sick, guerrilla soldiers set up camp... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I couldn't enter this book quite as I wished. The characters come from my city, they go to a remote location where I often stay. But they do it one hundred years ago during a civil war, the book being written ~35 years after that point.Calamities happen... I liked this a lot: it's beautifully written and well observed.However, the writing style is very odd to an early twenty-first century reader. We've got used to reading a third person limited point of view in contemporary fiction: i.e. third person that's very close to first person -- we're not in a narrator's head, but we're pretty...
