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Item Details
Title:
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SECRET SCRIPTURE
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By: |
Sebastian Barry |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£12.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571239617 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571239610 |
Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 2008 |
Edition: |
Export - Airside ed |
Pages: |
320 |
Description: |
Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. |
Synopsis: |
Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne's family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character. Exquisitely written, it is also the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
Prizes: |
Winner of Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2009
Winner of Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2009
Winner of Costa Novel Award 2008
Winner of Costa Book of the Year 2008
Short-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award:
Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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