Old God's time / Sebastian Barry.
Material type:
TextPublisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First American editionDescription: 261 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593296103
- 0593296109
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | BARRY, SEBASTIA | Available | Staining on top edge of pages. 10/17/2023 | 33111011045297 | ||||
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Main Library | Fiction | BARRY, SEBASTIA | Available | 33111010975429 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker , Washington Post , NPR, and Kirkus Reviews
"You should be reading Sebastian Barry. [He] has a special understanding of the human heart." -- T he Atlantic
"A prose stylist of near-miraculous skill. . . Barry reaches deep into the messenger bag of mystery fiction and turns the whole business inside out . . . marvelous." -- The Washington Post
"An unforgettable novel from one of our finest writers." --Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
From the five-time Booker Prize nominee and 2018-2021 Laureate for Irish Fiction, a virtuosic, profound novel exploring love, memory, grief, and long-buried secrets
Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return of his family: his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past.
A beautiful, haunting novel in which nothing is quite as it seems, Old God's Time is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.
"A novel"--Dust jacket.
"First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Limited, London, in 2023"--Title page verso.
"Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past"-- Provided by publisher.