The Divine Ryans - Rilegato

Johnston

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ISBN 10: 077104447X ISBN 13: 9780771044472

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991

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From the author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, "An absolute stunner--achingly funny, needle-sharp, and packing an unexpected wallop...the literary equivalent of a small-budget movie masterpiece with heart, soul, and brains"(Time Out).

The Ryans of St. John's, Newfoundland, are a large and deeply eccentric Irish-Catholic family in the dual business of newspaper-publishing and undertaking--"one-hundred years of digging up dirt of one kind or another," as Uncle Reginald puts it. Enough Ryans also become priests and nuns to earn them the sobriquet "Divine."

The youngest member of the family is nine-year-old Draper Doyle Ryan, whose passion for the Catholic Montreal Canadiens in their battles against the Protestant Toronto Maple Leafs is matched only by his perplexity over his recently deceased father's regular reappearances, hockey puck in hand, in the house next door. How he comes to make sense of these visitations, his gently screwy relatives, and his own burgeoning sexuality forms the matter of this droll, wise, and effortlessly funny coming-of-age novel.

Soon to be a major motion picture from the producer of Love and Death on Long Island, and starring Oscar�-nominee Pete Postlethwaite.
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Recensione:

"[Johnston's] books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read."
--Annie Dillard

"A very funny and fulfilling read."
--Toronto Globe and Mail

"Johnston is well on his way to becoming the most distinctive comic talent this country has produced since Mordecai Richler."
--Montreal Gazette

"Most compelling--an assured, touching comedy."
--Edmonton Journal
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L'autore:

Wayne Johnston is the author of four other novels, including The Story of Bobby O'Malley and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Doubleday). Born and raised in Newfoundland, he now lives in Toronto.
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