Joseph O'Connor
Birth date: September 20, 1963
Joseph O'Connor's Books
bookshelves: summer-2014, music, published-2014, autumn-2014, britain-england, luton, newtome-author Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from August 23 to September 06, 2014 BABThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9lmnBBC description: Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Th...
Seems to be a collection of magazine articles, mostly repetitive or too long from word-mining in barren terrain. Happy to drop this one.
the novel is set in a dark time for ireland, in 1847, during the potato famine that starved a million people, and set a further million to seek out new homes outside their native land. the main narrative is a book within a book, which further synthesizes other accounts from a variety of sources (lik...
The second time I read this book. And I have to say, this is a story that definitely improves upon rereading it.
There are many, many one liners in this to rock yer chops but after a while the lack of a story that you can keep a tabs on begins to gall. I am sure that I would have loved this to death earlier in my life but have had to discard it for something/anything else.Chapter One is by Roddy Doyle - "I thi...
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