The Woodcutter and His Family - Rilegato

McGuinness, Frank

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ISBN 10: 184717907X ISBN 13: 9781847179074

Casa editrice: Brandon Books, 2017

Riassunto

My son betrayed me. It is a family tradition.Didn’t I do the same to my father?The World War intensifies in Europe. In Zurich a writer breathes his last imagining his life till now from his childhood in Dublin.The voices of his family circling him – wife, son, daughter – carry him to his end as he hears each separate chapter chronicling the power of their passion for their famous father, their love, their hate, their need, their sorrows and joys, their strangeness.And James Joyce has saved for them one last story to delight and defy them: The Woodcutter And His Children ...

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Recensione:

It has the texture of a masterwork: uncompromising, adroit, properly audacious, the offspring of a radiant curiosity. --Sebastian Barry

L'autore:

Frank McGuinness is Professor of Creative Writing in University College Dublin. A world-renowned playwright, his first great stage hit was the highly acclaimed Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme . He is also a highly skilled adapter of plays by writers such as Ibsen, Sophocles, Brecht, and writer of several film scripts, including Dancing at Lughnasa, and he has published several anthologies of poetry. 

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• Editore: Brandon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 184717907X
• ISBN 13: 9781847179074
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224