This Is the Way (Paperback)

From a startling new voice in Irish fiction, a mesmerizing tale of a young man on the run in Dublin
Anthony Sonaghan is hiding out in an old tenement house in Dublin: he fears he has reignited an ancient feud between the two halves of his family. Twenty-first-century Dublin may have shopping malls and foreign exchange students, but Anthony is from an Irish Travelling community, where blood ties are bound deeply to the past. When his roguish uncle Arthur shows up on his doorstep with a missing toe, delirious and apparently on the run, history and its troubles are following close behind him--and Anthony will soon have to face the question of who he really is.
In prose of exceptional vividness, Gavin Corbett brings us a narrator with the power to build a new, previously unimagined world. His language, shot through with dreams and myths, summons a vision of Ireland in which a premodern spirit has somehow persisted into contemporary life, brooding and overlooked. Funny, terrible, unsettling, fiercely unsentimental, "This Is the Way "is haunted by some of Ireland's greatest writers even as it breaks new ground and asks afresh why the imagination is so necessary to survival.

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	March 2014
Authors:	Gavin Corbett
Dimensions:	205 x 134 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-86547-807-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-86547-807-4
Barcode:	9780865478077

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