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Colm TóibÃn
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The sequel to the prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn. A
novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of
the world's finest writers. In Colm TóibÃn's masterful new novel,
we are reunited with Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn, twenty
years on, in the 1970s, living with her husband, Tony Fiorello, and
her children in a house in Long Island, rather too close to her
Fiorello in-laws. A shocking piece of news propels Eilis back to
Ireland, to a world she thought she had long left behind and to
ways of living, and loving, she thought she had lost. PRAISE FOR
BROOKLYN 'With this elating and humane novel, Colm TóibÃn has
produced a masterwork' - The Sunday Times 'The most compelling and
moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' - Zoë
Heller, The Guardian, Books of the Year 'A work of such skill,
understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life' -
Ali Smith, TLS, Books of the Year 'Suffused with humane depth,
funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent
accomplishment' - Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times, Novel of the Year
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A Strange and Sublime Address
Amit Chaudhuri; Introduction by Colm TóibÃn
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Discovery Miles 3 920
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Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and
haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates.
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist,
Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she
would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed,
sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet
he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery,
Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she
should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her
urbane, empty narrator—edge of despair to edge of despair—and,
working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's
preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of
fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true
mystery of life and leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed.
He was one of the last great court artists and at the same time a
significant trailblazer for modern art: Francisco de Goya. The
Fondation Beyeler is preparing one of the most extensive
exhibitions of his work outside of Spain. In his more than
sixty-year-long career, Goya was an astute observer of the drama of
reason and irrationality, of dreams and nightmares. His pictures
show things that go beyond social conventions: he depicts saints
and criminals, witches and demons, breaking open the gates to
realms where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur. The
show gathers more than seventy paintings, around sixty masterful
drawings, and a selection of prints that invite the viewer to an
encounter with the beautiful, as well as the incomprehensible. The
extensive catalogue examines Goya’s unique artistic impact in
texts by renowned interpreters, and splendid photo galleries.
From Colm TóibÃn comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously
entertaining book about writers and their families. In this
wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm TóibÃn
not only explores the often tense relationship between writers and
their families but also conveys, with a rare tenderness and wit,
the great joy of reading their work. Here is W.B. Yeats harshly
responding to his own father's literary efforts; Thomas Mann
ruining his children's prospects; Tennessee Williams haunted by his
sister's mental illness; and John Cheever being beastly to his
wife. Praise for New Ways to Kill Your Mother: 'A brilliant
book...TóibÃn is a supple, subtle thinker, alive to hints and
undertones, wary of absolute truths' Robert Hanks, New Statesman 'A
penetrating and often very funny inquiry into the fraught
complicity between parent and child, brother and sister' Daily
Telegraph 'Insightful and compassionate, assured and knowledgeable,
never less than fascinating. An impressive, fine and engaging
collection' Independent on Sunday
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