Effect of Her - Softcover

Stembridge, Gerard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908699329 ISBN 13: 9781908699329

Verlag: Old Street Publishing, 2013

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'This rich, magisterial novel is a portrait of Ireland during the tumultuous Seventies'
THE TIMES on The Effect of Her

'Extraordinarily vivid, knowing and satisfyingly irreverent'
John Banville on The Effect of Her

'An epic which courses through the tumultuous decade of the 1970s, taking in cultural upheaval at every turn . . . Absorbing'
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST on The Effect of Her

'Highly entertaining . . . Whether you were around in the 1970s or not, this thoroughly enjoyable read makes the decade seem very appealing indeed.'
METRO on The Effect of Her

'Magnificent ... thrilling ... There is something of the 18th-century lampoon in Stembridge's fascination with the egocentric and ridiculous, as though he learnt mudslinging from Laurence Sterne and Henry Fielding ... Stembridge excels at capturing a telling moment, phrase or visual detail'
SUNDAY TIMES

'a retro-chic treasure trove . . . compelling . . . a good summer read'
IRISH TIMES on The Effect of Her

'The characters are nicely drawn and their interactions are alive with possibility . . . Stembridge's exploration of the relationship between politician and adviser is first rate'
GLASGOW HERALD on The Effect of Her

'What great literature (or one kind of it, at least) should be, a marriage of the personal with the political and social . . . One of my books of the year, if not the book of the year.'
JOHN HARDING, author and critic, on Unspoken

'Stembridge is reminding us that the larger moods of history begin in the small moods of individual moments . . . He has done an excellent job of capturing both'
IRISH TIMES on Unspoken

'Authentic, honest, and utterly absorbing'
DIARMAID FERRITER on Unspoken

'Unspoken conveys to the reader the excitement of the times with an enchanting freshness . . . Wonderful'
DAILY MAIL

'Absorbing . . . fuses the everyday with the historical . . . Stembridge has been able to capture the powerful shifts in the cultural and political atmosphere of a historic decade.'
SUNDAY TIMES on Unspoken

'Unforgettable . . . Reading Unspoken is like being mesmerised by a storytelling Janus all human warmth and compassion from one mouth, cold accuracy and knowingness from the other. A wonderful achievement.'
EUGENE MCCABE

'A striking portrait of what Ireland used to be and what it is today. Unspoken is a fantastic novel.'
BOOKMUNCH

'One of the most interesting writing minds this country has produced in recent decades . . . Stembridge is a man of formidable talent.'
IRISH INDEPENDENT

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Reseña del editor:

''You couldn't write it,' people say of Irish public life over the past fifty years, but here is Gerard Stembridge to prove them wrong. In The Effect of Her, with flair and great daring, he has written a fictional chronicle of the 1970s that is extraordinarily vivid, knowing, and satisfyingly irreverent. The portrait of 'CJ' alone is worth the purchase price.'
John Banville

Mags Perry, a journalist, flees her marriage in England to create a new life in what she hopes is a different Ireland.

Francis Strong, a teenager obsessed with literature, leaves his family for the dizzying freedoms of the capital.

CJ, a disgraced politician in search of a way back to power, meets a woman who may change the direction of his life.

In his breathtaking new novel, Gerard Stembridge weaves together a cast of unforgettable voices to tell the story of a whole society in flux. As his characters struggle towards happiness and freedom, he asks where true change comes from: the individual or her political masters.

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• Verlag: Old Street Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908699329
• ISBN 13: 9781908699329
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448