The Spinning Heart
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781781620076 (1781620075)
Publish date: October 11th 2012
Publisher: Transworld Ireland
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Ireland
Gosh, I’m not quite sure what to make of this book. It contains rather sad and depressing, although insightful and sharp, snapshots of the lives of inhabitants of a small village in the west of Ireland. The area has gone from riches to rags after the fraudulent local builder who provided the jobs an...
A lovely, good natured piece of kitchen sink realism, this short and attractive little novel constructs a drama in a small town through the eyes of a different character in each chapter and the plot unfolds in a satisfying way. Much of the pleasure is in the colloquial language and incidental touch...
bookshelves: booker-longlist, published-2012, impac-longlist, summer-2014, britain-ireland, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, lit-richer, contemporary, tbr-busting-2014, e-book, nutty-nuut, debut Read from December 02, 2013 to August 07, 2014 Description: In the aftermath of Ireland's financial c...
These voices come from the same neighbourhoods as [a:Roddy Doyle|10108|Roddy Doyle|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1195236672p2/10108.jpg]'s and [a:Agnes Owens|108420|Agnes Owens|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1312630005p2/108420.jpg]'s. They are the working class of an I...
I didn’t think I would enjoy this novel, or rather novella. I’m wary of those 160 page books; they often seem so lazy in execution, like something the writer just phoned in. You know, you start and immediately you get, ekhm, the sense of an ending.Additionally, the cover of ‘The Spinning Heart’ look...
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