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Donal Ryan

Autor(a) de The Spinning Heart

8+ Works 1,637 Membros 110 Reviews 3 Favorited

About the Author

Inclui os nomes: Donal Ryan, by Donal Ryan

Obras de Donal Ryan

The Spinning Heart (2012) 516 cópias
From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018) 306 cópias
The Thing About December (2013) 194 cópias
The Queen of Dirt Island (2022) 188 cópias
All We Shall Know (2016) 178 cópias
Strange Flowers (2020) 169 cópias

Associated Works

Granta 135: New Irish Writing (2014) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
Dubliners 100 (2014) — Contribuinte — 30 cópias
How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love (2016) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1976
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Ireland
Local de nascimento
Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland
Locais de residência
Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland

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I am fast becoming a fan of Donal Ryan. He writes stories about people who live simple lives in rural Ireland. However, all lives have their own complexities and problems.
Paddy and Kit Gladney lived a quiet, hardworking life tending the farm of the wealthy landowners, the Jackmans and Paddy was also the local postman. There was respect on both sides. When their only daughter Moll catches a bus and disappers from their lives without a word they are devastated. She appeared a meek, obedient young woman and this was perceived as totally out of character. It is five long years before she returns with little explanation untill a stranger arrives in the village seeking the family. How she had spent the past 5 years then comes to light. The reason for her sudden departure thoughis only revealed to the reader in the latter section of the book.
Although this was a slow burner, I found myself drawn into and captivated by this tale and oh what a beautiful cover.
… (mais)
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HelenBaker | outras 12 resenhas | Mar 18, 2024 |
The Queen of Dirt Island follows the Aylward women who live in a rural, small town in Ireland — a circumstance that both makes and breaks them as a family. A book of two-page chapters, it comes across as a bit of collage leaving readers to fill in a lot of the spaces and connect the missing pieces, but ultimately tells a story of four generations of women who rely on each other to survive what life throws at them.
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Hccpsk | outras 12 resenhas | Mar 11, 2024 |
Okay, what was all that about?

It's an okay read, but at the end... it's just over. And uhm, why?
½
 
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cwebb | outras 10 resenhas | Mar 7, 2024 |
What happens when a story is pared down to its absolute essentials? There is nothing here in Donal Ryan's tale of rural Ireland that does not ring of truth. Each of the interior monologues shaves the skin off the apple. Even the monologue of the dead. I cannot think of another writer since William Faulkner who tells me what real people are thinking even as the characters are woven in their own words, then the words of their neighbours and relatives. There is no real present tense here. There is the impetus of the past folding these people into the future, like scraggly lines of DNA, or neurons of some colossal brain.… (mais)
 
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MylesKesten | outras 31 resenhas | Jan 23, 2024 |

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Obras
8
Also by
3
Membros
1,637
Popularidade
#15,692
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
110
ISBNs
101
Idiomas
8
Favorito
3

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