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Walter Keady

Auteur de Mary McGreevy

5 oeuvres 119 utilisateurs 4 critiques

Œuvres de Walter Keady

Mary McGreevy (1998) 45 exemplaires
Celibates and Other Lovers (1997) 35 exemplaires
The Dowry (2006) 35 exemplaires
The Altruist: A Novel (2003) 3 exemplaires

Étiqueté

Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1934-11-21
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Ireland (birth)
Lieu de naissance
Castlebar, Ireland
Lieux de résidence
Ireland
Brazil
Hudson Valley, New York, USA
Professions
civil servant (Ireland)
cleric
Organisations
Roman Catholic Church

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Critiques

This is a wonderful little book about life in the Irish village of Creevagh in 1945. The cadence of the writing makes you feel as if you are smack dab in Ireland.
 
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gypsysmom | Aug 24, 2017 |
rabck from chevygoddess; cozy read - and hilarious ending. Set in 1946 in Ireland, three couples want to marry, but don't have the means to. The bartender offers a substantial dowry to the man who will marry his daughter. Martin steps up to the plate, but then falls into the river, is presumed drowned & her decides to stay that way. Meanwhile, the priest is attempting to get ahold of the dowry money from the bartender, since the daughter attracted the attention of an older bachelor who doesn't need the dowry to marry. A series of events among the couples, the priest, and the townfolks. And in the end, the priest gets the dowry money for the church- which was stolen American bank money & tainted - but no one is going to tell the Catholic priest that. What a hoot!… (plus d'informations)
 
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nancynova | 1 autre critique | May 7, 2014 |
Fun read which helped me in my quest to understand the Irish psyche.
 
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eejjennings | 1 autre critique | Jun 14, 2010 |
Delightful Mary McGreevy is a redheaded force to be reckoned with, but no one seems able to figure her out. After 16 years in a convent, Mary comes home to Creevagh, County Mayo in 1950 for her father’s funeral and decides to revoke her vows as a nun to become an independent farmer.
As if that weren't scandal enough for a traditional little village, she then chooses to have a child on her own and infuriates her neighbors by refusing to name the father. Every man in the village is suspect. The results are disastrous, and the lives of several men are upended by the power of town gossips who are willing to put careers and reputations at risk for their own amusement, which they cloak in the piety they feel they surely posses, but in truth are totally bereft of its influence; which Miss Mcgreevy is only to happy to point out. At times her debates with a Priest are a riot, as her knowledge of Aristotle, Sarte, and a variety of male Old Testament figures, "who begat children", outside of matrimony makes for brilliant dialogue.
The whole town is turned inside out when Mary's logical choice is revealed at last, yet there is still another unexpected surprise laying in wait at the end of this most unusual novel.
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siubhank | Oct 25, 2007 |

Statistiques

Œuvres
5
Membres
119
Popularité
#166,388
Évaluation
½ 3.5
Critiques
4
ISBN
17
Langues
1

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