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I Could Read the Sky

I Could Read the Sky

by Timothy O'Grady (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $7.61
Synopsis

I Could Read The Sky tells of one man's journey from the West of Ireland to the fields and boxing-booths and building sites of England. Now, at the century's end, he finds himself alone, looking back, struggling to make sense of a life of unforgotten loveliness and loss. Exploring themes of love, dislocation and yearning, with stark, clear prose and stunning photographs, this novel explores the experience of Irish emigration as never before.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: First Thus
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 15 Oct 1998
ISBN 10: 1860465080
ISBN 13: 9781860465086
Book Overview: An old man looks back on a life lived largely in exile in this astonishing illustrated novel

Media Reviews
If the words tell the story of the voiceless, the bleak, lovely photographs that accompany it show their faces... Fiction rarely gets as close to the messy, glorious truth, as do memories and photographs. This rare novel dares to use both -- Charlotte Mendelson * Times Literary Supplement *
Speaks in the manner of an important work of art, memorably and beautifully -- Anthony Cronin * Sunday Independent *
There are not many books [this year] that seem to me written with comparable force [or] depth of feeling -- Dan Jacobson * Sunday Telegraph *
What Pyke and O'Grady have done is read our imagination -- Dermot Healy * Sunday Tribune *
Author Bio
Timothy O'Grady was born in Chicago and has lived in Ireland, London, Spain and Poland. He was in Las Vegas after receiving a fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute there and stayed on for another year to teach. He has written three works of non-fiction, Curious Journey, On Golf and, most recently, Divine Magnetic Lands, an account of a return journey around America after thirty years of living in Europe. His novels are Motherland, I Could Read the Sky and Light.