Winner of Sorrow: 0 - Brossura

Lynch, Brian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1564785211 ISBN 13: 9781564785213

Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2009

Riassunto

A fictional imagining of the gentle but troubled zealot William Cowper--best known as a precursor to Romantics such as Wordsworth and Burns--Brian Lynch’s The Winner of Sorrow brings to life the mind and times of an eighteenth-century poet. Intense and exhilarating, this is literary fiction at its finest--the reader will be hard-pressed not to rush ahead to see what happens next. Yet you’ll want to savor every word as Lynch traces Cowper’s tragic descent into madness, which is presented matter-of-factly so that the novel is not sentimental but austere, not precious but serious, and yet, remarkably, lively, sensuous, and blackly comic.

"A wonderful book." -The Sunday Tribune

"At once moving, instructive and slyly funny, that rare thing, a recuperation of a poet by a poet." -John Banville

"A brilliant re-imagining of the troubled life of William Cowper." -Dermot Bloger

"An exceptional Irish writer." -Thomas Kilroy, Irish Independent

"If you want the low-down and high-down on the delicate, brutal reality of a poet’s life, you must read The Winner of Sorrow." -Paul Durcan

"Beautifully written, poignant, witty and profound." -Clare Boylav

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L'autore:

Brian Lynch was born in 1945 in Dublin, where he still lives today. A poet, novelist, and playwright, Lynch is also a filmmaker. His feature film Love and Rage, starring Daniel Craig and Greta Scacchi, was directed by Cathal Black in 1998, and his television series Caught in a Free State-- a four part series about German spies in Ireland during World War II-- has been shown in over forty countries since its debut in 1983. Praising his “exceptional talent,” Samuel Beckett recommended Lynch for election to the Aosdána in 1985.

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• Editore: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564785211
• ISBN 13: 9781564785213
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 363