Peter Carter (1)
Auteur de Captain Teachum's Buried Treasure
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Œuvres de Peter Carter
Grimms' Fairy Tales 2 exemplaires
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- male
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 189
- Popularité
- #115,306
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 51
- Langues
- 5
But here I am. Alan is a Protestant, but a bit of an outsider for all that, his father being British. With no interest in hardline Protestantism, he nonetheless develops a desire to play the lambegh, the huge drum used by Orange marching bands. In the event, he joins a band, but ends up playing the fife. A chance, and chancy, encounter, brings him into contact with Fergus, a Catholic piper, and a hidden gun. They meet each week, their relationship uneasily distorted by the gun, and by the growing unease throughout the city and province, to the point where it seems impossible for them to be friends.
This is brilliantly, beautifully written, psychologically astute, vivid with the sights and sounds of seventies Belfast, awash with the social and religious pressures dividing the inhabitants. The final chapters brilliantly describe a terrifying riot in all its confusion and violence. The framing device has a shockingly brutal bitterness to it. The boys might survive their childhood experiences but the cumulative effect destroys their innocence and warps their lives.
The lesson here is, I suppose, that sometimes worthy books really are truly and genuinely worthy books.… (plus d'informations)