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O'grady Timothy - I Could Read The Sky - Paperback
O'grady Timothy - I Could Read The Sky - Paperback
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Description: Think about a tune the unsayable the invisible the longing in music. Here is a book of tunes without musical notes It wrings the heart John Berger The voice that O Grady has crafted succeeds so well. running in parallel Pyke's stark arresting images are laced between the paragraphs and chapters. The interplay between the two mediums is delicately powerful Hilary White A masterpiece Robert Macfarlane O Grady does not just respond to Pyke's stark beautiful photographs: he gives voice to thousands Louise Kennedy The experience of Irish emigration uniquely and powerfully illuminated Mark Knopfler If the words tell the story of the voiceless the bleak lovely photographs show their faces. Fiction rarely gets as close to the messy glorious truth as do memories and photographs. This rare novel dares to use both Charlotte Mendelson TLS An old man lies alone and sleepless in London. Before dawn he is taken by an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland and begins to remember a migrant's life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind he calls forth the bars and boxing booths of England the potato fields and building sites the music he played and the woman he loved. Timothy O Grady's tender vivid prose and Steve Pyke's starkly beautiful photographs combine to make a unique work of fiction an act of remembering suffused with loss defiance and an unforgettable loveliness. An Irish life with echoes of the lives of unregarded migrant workers everywhere. Since it was first published in 1997, I Could Read the Sky has achieved the status of a classic.
Title: I Could Read The Sky
Author(s): O'grady Timothy
Publisher: Unbound
Barcode: 9781800182714
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 9/26/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Think about a tune the unsayable the invisible the longing in music. Here is a book of tunes without musical notes It wrings the heart John Berger The voice that O Grady has crafted succeeds so well. running in parallel Pyke's stark arresting images are laced between the paragraphs and chapters. The interplay between the two mediums is delicately powerful Hilary White A masterpiece Robert Macfarlane O Grady does not just respond to Pyke's stark beautiful photographs: he gives voice to thousands Louise Kennedy The experience of Irish emigration uniquely and powerfully illuminated Mark Knopfler If the words tell the story of the voiceless the bleak lovely photographs show their faces. Fiction rarely gets as close to the messy glorious truth as do memories and photographs. This rare novel dares to use both Charlotte Mendelson TLS An old man lies alone and sleepless in London. Before dawn he is taken by an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland and begins to remember a migrant's life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind he calls forth the bars and boxing booths of England the potato fields and building sites the music he played and the woman he loved. Timothy O Grady's tender vivid prose and Steve Pyke's starkly beautiful photographs combine to make a unique work of fiction an act of remembering suffused with loss defiance and an unforgettable loveliness. An Irish life with echoes of the lives of unregarded migrant workers everywhere. Since it was first published in 1997, I Could Read the Sky has achieved the status of a classic.
Title: I Could Read The Sky
Author(s): O'grady Timothy
Publisher: Unbound
Barcode: 9781800182714
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 9/26/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
