Colin Barrett (2) (1982–)
Auteur de Young Skins
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Colin Barrett, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Colin Barrett
The Ways 2 exemplaires
The Clancy Kid 1 exemplaire
Bait 1 exemplaire
The Moon 1 exemplaire
Stand Your Skin 1 exemplaire
Diamonds 1 exemplaire
Kindly Forget My Existence 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1982
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Lieu de naissance
- County Mayo, Ireland
- Lieux de résidence
- Dublin, Ireland
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Études
- University College Dublin (MA)
- Prix et distinctions
- National Book Foundation, 5 Under 35 Honoree (2015)
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Critiques
A small-town Sopranos-style study of grime and crime. Very enjoyable and well-crafted.
I can tell that this book is incredibly skillfully written and I feel impressed on a logical level - he's great at taking a short snapshot of lives and writing so that you feel you see a huge part of their past and future without him needing to spell it out - yet somehow it just didn't do it for me for no particular reason. Probably just my mood I guess. It's clearly a very good collection of stories just. Didn't work as well as I wanted for me.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 329
- Popularité
- #72,116
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 20
- ISBN
- 43
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 1
I really enjoyed Young Skins: Stories from this young Irish author and he returns here with his first novel, set in a small town in west Ireland. It also focuses on the working class, along with the drug-dealers and thugs that hang on like parasites. A teenage boy is kidnapped, in revenge of a large unpaid debt and things spiral down from there. The writing is lean but robust and unflinching, with nicely drawn characters. An author to keep an eye on.… (plus d'informations)