Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

ISBN 10: 0571239617 / ISBN 13: 9780571239610

Editore: Faber & Faber, 2008

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. 2008 Signed. 8vo. Good copy. First paperback export edition.

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• Titolo: Secret Scripture
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0571239617
• ISBN 13: 9780571239610
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne's family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character. Exquisitely written, it is also the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

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A beautiful and moving novel of a remarkable woman's stolen life.