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Chargement... Les Ombres sur la peau (1977)par Jennifer Johnston
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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. 2656 Shadows on Our Skin, by Jennifer Johnston (read 3 Oct 1994) This is a 1978 novel telling of a 12-year-old boy in Northern Ireland who befriends a teacher, Kathleen, and is infatuated. His older brother comes home, "horns in," and befriends Kathleen. This is a superlative book. Stark, so authentic-sounding, tremendously well-done: easily I think the best fiction I have read this year. Somehow it seemed more real, though just as austere, somber, soul-shattering as How Many Miles to Babylon, which I liked less. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: In the midst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a young schoolboy struggles to escape the destruction storming around him Inside his home in Derry, Joe Logan's life is ruled by his tormented father; outside, by the tension and violence of the Troubles. Sometimes his father makes him run errands despite the nearby reports of gunfire. Other times his mother, afraid to be alone with her volatile and war-wounded husband, confines Joe to the home. A bright and sensitive young man, Joe finds solace and freedom in writing--a pursuit encouraged by Kathleen Doherty, a young teacher at a nearby school whom he meets and befriends. In Kathleen, Joe has found a friend who understands him, makes him laugh, and allows him to forget his burdens for a time. But everything changes when his brother, Brendan, arrives home from London, newly energized to join the raging fray, and cavalierly bringing the war straight into their home. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Much of its context might be lost on (or puzzle) someone who is not aware of the catholic/protestant divide in Northern Ireland during this period and the violence earlier in the twentieth century that divided Ireland politically to create a Southern Irish state independent from the United Kingdom. ( )