Annie Dunne
Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. All about them the old green roads are being tarred, cars are being purchased, a way of life is about to disappear. When Annie's nephew and his wife are set to go to...
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Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. All about them the old green roads are being tarred, cars are being purchased, a way of life is about to disappear. When Annie's nephew and his wife are set to go to London to find work, their two small children, a little boy and his older sister, are brought down to spend the summer with their grand-aunt. A summer of adventure, pain, delight and ultimately epiphany unfolds in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, loss and reconciliation
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571216444 (0571216447)
Publish date: May 19th 2003
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Modern,
Womens
Series: Dunne Family
2.5 Stars Sebastian Barry is my favourite Irish author and this is my seventh novel by him. Annie Dunne is his second novel and for me his weakest link in the chain of novels. The prose which he is renowned for is not present in this book nor is his characters well developed compared to books...
Plotless but charming. As always, Barry's language has the music. "And so our peculiar and no doubt dark-hearted planet runs ever further from the sun, the string of days is tightening, the hours of daylight grow shorter, the summer is closing its shutters of gold and green for another year."
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