Strumpet City - Brossura

Plunkett, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 071714058X ISBN 13: 9780717140589

Casa editrice: Gill & Macmillan, 2006

Riassunto

Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel of city life. It embraces a wide range of social milieux, from the miseries of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws. It introduces a memorable cast of characters: the main protagonist, Fitz, a model of the hard-working, loyal and abused trade unionist; the isolated, well-meaning and ineffectual Fr O'Connor; the wretched and destitute Rashers Tierney. In the background hovers the enormous shadow of Jim Larkin, Plunkett's real-life hero. Strumpet City's popularity derives from its realism and its naturalistic presentation of traumatic historical events. There are clear heroes and villians. The book is informed by a sense of moral outrage at the treatment of the locked-out trade unionists, the indifference and evasion of the city's clergy and middle class and the squalor and degradation of the tenement slums.

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Book by James Plunkett

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• Editore: Gill & Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 071714058X
• ISBN 13: 9780717140589
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560