The Water Star - Softcover

Casey, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330371916 ISBN 13: 9780330371919

Verlag: Picador, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Set in post-war London still recovering from the Blitz, this novel follows the overlapping lives of five characters who inhabit the ruins of North London. It revolves around the fractured worlds of Irish and English communities in London at the time.

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Reseña del editor

`Set in a post-war London still recovering from the Blitz, the novel follows the overlapping lives of five characters who inhabit the ruins of North London . . . Casey escorts his reader through the labyrinths of his character's minds, unpicking the jumbled mosaic of mourning, desire and fear. The Water Star is a bitter-sweet testimony to the never-ending struggle between exile and assimilation' John Tague, Times Literary Supplement `There is something at once tough and endearing in Casey's predominant concerns with making his creations seem like real people, with delineating intimate human relationships - with being, essentially, emotive and compassionate' John Kenny, Irish Times `Casey is a poet and a playwright; he has a poet's delicate ear and a playwright's eye for direction . . . The Water Star is a graceful, gentle novel that does not shy from the truth. It is a metaphor of lives rebuilt from rubble - whether the detritus of the past or the structures shattered by the Blitz' Erica Wagner, The Times

Biografía del autor

Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford. A poet and novelist, he lives in Dublin.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0330371916
• ISBN 13: 9780330371919
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448