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I could read the sky : a novel / Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke ; preface by John Berger.
Van Pelt Library PR6065.G75 I3 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Grady, Timothy, author.
- Pyke, Steve, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ireland--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Ireland.
- Irish--England--Fiction.
- Irish.
- Emigration and immigration.
- England.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Domestic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Unbound, 2023.
- Summary:
- "An old man lies alone and sleepless in London. Before dawn he is taken by an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland, and begins to remember a migrant's life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind, he calls forth the bars and boxing booths of England, the potato fields and building sites, the music he played and the woman he loved. Timothy O'Grady's tender, vivid prose and Steve Pyke's starkly beautiful photographs combine to make a unique work of fiction, an act of remembering suffused with loss, defiance and an unforgettable loveliness. An Irish life with echoes of the lives of unregarded migrant workers everywhere."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "First published by The Harvill Press in 1997"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781800182714
- 1800182716
- OCLC:
- 1356241659
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