Simple humanity, eloquently caught....Though <i>Cal</i> is a bleak novel, there is a flicker of lyricism running through it, like the sun shining through the shattered windows of a ruined church

New York Times

To fashion a short, telling novel out of the hideous complexities of Northern Ireland takes narrative skill of a high order. In <i>Cal</i> Bernard MacLaverty has managed to do it superbly

- Nina Bawden,

It performs the remarkable feat of compressing into its short span both a doomed love affair and an account of the impossibility of living, in the circumstances of that doomed province, without redemption and without punishment… MacLaverty has a true feeling for tragedy’

- Anita Brookner,

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story that unfolds in a land where tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark.See also: Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
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Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area.
A haunting love story set against the grim backdrop of fear and violence in Northern Ireland.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784875503
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
128 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter

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Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.