SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002
A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel, Milkman.
’Marvellous: shocking, moving, evocative’ Daily Mail
This is sensational. This young Irishwoman is perhaps the most distinctive, the most purely gifted new writer to come to Flamingo all year.
Her debut novel tracks the tragicomic fortunes of the Lovett family of Catholic Belfast – splenetically violent father; shrewdly mad mother; malevolent Mick the eldest; and dreamy, endearing Amelia, our narrator of choice. Their antics over the years (she devotes, more or less, one chapter per year from 1969 to the late 1990s) – fights, school, kickings, the IRA and the RUC vying for Most Inept Police in the City, more violence – make for black comedy of the highest order.
We are up amongst the gods here: think Belfast’s Angela’s Ashes; think Roddy Doyle with guns; think a Northern Irish Trainspotting.
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'Not only hilarious but also terribly tragic and awful and human and wonderful... No Bones is the best book I've read for ages. The world Burns creates is utterly convincing and surreal at the same time. I love the writing, the way she rolls the words around... No Bones is absolutely fantastic, and explores really exciting territory... the tone and timbre of the novel feel quite different to anything I've read before.' Julia Darling
'A chilling recognition that most survived the Troubles intact but some people will never be the same again...This account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles, which examines madness and sanity and questions our interpretation of both, is scary. Scarily well written, too... No Bones tears chunks out of our Peace Process comfort blankets. For it questions how a peaceful, mundane existence can be superimposed on a society inured over decades to violence.' Martina Devlin, Irish Independent
‘Not only hilarious but also terribly tragic and awful and human and wonderful ... No Bones is absolutely fantastic, quite different from anything I’ve read before’ Julia Darling, author of Crocodile Tears
anna burns was born in Belfast in 1962. She moved to London in 1987. This is her first book.
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Codice articolo 6545-9780002261807
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