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Carry Me Down

Carry Me Down

by M.J. Hyland (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records and faith in his ability to detect when adults are lying, John remains hopeful despite the unfortunate cards life deals him. During one year in John's life, from his voice breaking, through the breaking-up of his home life, to the near collapse of his sanity, we witness the gradual unsticking of John's mind, and the trouble that creates for him and his family.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 06 Apr 2006
ISBN 10: 1841957348
ISBN 13: 9781841957340

Media Reviews
Expressively communicating the stagnant mood of 1970s Ireland, Hyland's disquieting novel is also feverishly alert to childhood's bewilderments and sensitively articulates the strange osmosis between the mundane and the otherwordly that enriches the narrator's wonky perceptions of humanity. * * Sunday Times * *
This is a gripping read. Hyland has a unique and compelling style. * * Irish Independent * *
It is difficult to combine realism and surreal interludes in a single narrative structure, but Hyland manages this effortlessly in what is only her second novel . . . The most contemporary writer she most brings to mind is AL Kennedy. They share a fondness for quietly, relentlessly shocking the reader . . . a fictional, exaggerated, but ultimately winning version of every adolescent who ever hesitated nervously on the threshold of the adult world. * * Daily Telegraph * *
Author Bio
Prize-winning novelist M J Hyland was awarded the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore prize for her second novel Carry Me Down, and has been appointed to the Centre for New Writing at University of Manchester as a Lecturer in Creative Writing. Carry Me Down, which charts a year in the profoundly troubled family life of twelve-year-old John Egan in early 1970s Ireland, was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her work has been acclaimed by the likes of Ali Smith, Hilary Mantel and J M Coetzee, who commented, 'This is fiction writing of the highest order.'