The Boatman and Other Stories, O`Callaghan Billy

Автор: O`Callaghan Billy
Название: The Dead House
ISBN: 1948924560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948924566
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 15630.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Sometimes the past enduresand sometimes it never lets go.
Long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award, this best-selling debut is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she's healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit.

On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff side, she spies the shell of a cottage that dates back to Great Famine and decides to buy it. When work on the house is done, she invites her dealer to come for the weekend to celebrate along with a couple of women friends, one of whom will become his wife. On the boozy last night, the other friend pulls out an Ouija board.

What sinister thing they summon, once invited, will never go.

Ireland is a country haunted by its past. In Billy OCallaghans hands, its terrible beauty becomes a force of inescapable horror that reaches far back in time, before the Famine, before Christianity, to a pagan place where nature and superstition are bound in an endless knot.

Автор: O`Callaghan Billy
Название: My Coney Island Baby
ISBN: 006285657X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062856579
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11830.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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An exquisite, heart-breaking novel by an Irish discovery.

Radiant with beauty, longing, and desire, and deeply touching, this literary novel, reminiscent of the works of William Trevor and Colm T ib n, evokes the long love affair between a man and a woman, each married to another, who meet every month in a decaying hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

On a bitterly cold winter's afternoon, Michael and Caitlin, two middle-aged lovers, escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit date. Once a month for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven, the place in which they have abandoned themselves to their love.

These beautiful, carefully-rationed days have long sustained Michael and Caitlin's love, and have helped help them survive the tedium of their lives separate from each other. But now, amid the howling winds whipping off the Atlantic, and a snow storm blackening the horizon, this nearly abandoned resort feels like the edge of the world. On this winter day, burrowed in their private cocoon, they will discover that their lives are on the brink of change.

Michael's wife is battling cancer, and Caitlin's husband is about to receive a major promotion, which will involve relocating to the Midwest. After half a lifetime together in their most intimate moments, certain long-denied facts must be faced, decisions made, consequences weighed and, maybe, just maybe, chances finally taken.

A quiet, intense depiction of love and intimacy, My Coney Island Baby reveals, within the course of a single day's passing, the histories, landscapes, tragedies and occasional moments of wonder that constitute the lives of two people who, although living worlds apart, have been inexorably drawn together. But even in this most private of retreats, a place seemingly built for romance, the most heartbreaking of realities loom.

Автор: O`callaghan, Billy
Название: Boatman and other stories
ISBN: 1787330907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787330900
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 13190.00 T
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writerIn these twelve quietly dazzling, carefully crafted stories, Billy O`Callaghan explores the resilience of the human heart and its ability to keep beating even in the wake of grief, trauma and lost love.