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Chargement... The Fourth Island (original 2020; édition 2020)par Sarah Tolmie (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Fourth Island par Sarah Tolmie (2020)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A wonderfully poetic exploration on the conservation of despair an the arbitrary symbology used to combat it. Not much plot and the characters are subsumed in the necessities of the mood, but worth the short visit it entails. ( ) Tolmie's books have very specific audiences -- I suspect this book is perfect for inspiring people to travel to Ireland, if they've never been. And fyi, her books thus far are not related at all, even though the covers look like they could be, so this novella definitely stands alone. Fourth Island is about a mysterious 4th Aran Island off the coast of Ireland, where lost people wash up through the mists of time. It's dreamy and lyrical, with elegant prose and just enough of that sense of fantasy that one can almost get pulled in... but also, if one starts to really pay attention, it reads a bit like the author took a mini-van tour of Inis Mor -- the biggest Aran Island, where part of the tale is set -- and then made a list of stuff to put in her book without actually writing a plot. A good checklist of both fantastic and cultural touchstones, without much there there. Fine and poetic and all that, but like that guy in your MFA program, it pretends more depth than it has. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Huddled in the sea off the coast of Ireland is a fourth Aran Island, a secret island peopled by the lost, findable only in moments of despair. Whether drowned at sea, trampled by Cromwell's soldiers, or exiled for clinging to the dead, no outsiders reach the island without giving in to dark emotion. Time and again, The Fourth Island weaves a hypnotic pattern with its prose, presaging doom before walking back through the sweet and sour moments of lives not yet lost. It beautifully melds the certainty of loss with the joys of living, drawing readers under like the tide."--Provided by publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999ÉvaluationMoyenne:
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