Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry

Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry

'Kelsha is a distant place, over the mountains from everywhere. You go over the mountains to get there, and eventually, through dreams.' Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. All about them the old green roads are being tarred, cars are being purchased, a way of life is about to disappear. Like two old rooks, they hold to their hill in Kelsha, cherishing everything. When Annie's nephew and his wife are set to go to London to find work, their two small children, a little boy and his older sister, are brought down to spend the summer with their great-aunt. It is a strange chance of happiness for Annie. Against that happiness moves the figure of Billy Kerr, with his ambiguous attentions to Sarah, threatening to drive Annie from her last niche of safety in the world. The world of childish innocence also proves sometimes darkened and puzzling to her, and she struggles to find clear ground, clear light - to preserve her sense of love and place against these subtle forces of disquiet. A summer of adventure, pain, delight and ultimately epiphany unfolds for both the children and their elderly caretakers in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, loss and reconciliation.

Driven from her home by a brother-in-law about to remarry, Annie Dunne has found her own peculiar haven at her cousin's farm in WicklowIn the rigours of farm work and the ebbs and flows of a rural community, Annie carves a tough, but seemingly impregnable existence. When Annie's nephew brings his children to stay for the summer, she is given a rare opportunity for love, pleasure and adventure. Almost inevitably though, her new-found joy is threatened by outside and sometimes intangible forces - awakening sexuality, creeping modernity, animosity, family shame and, not least, Annie herself. A poetically written, finely wrought novel which subtly transforms the reality of the narrative into something rich and strange.

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ISBN 13	9780571203048
ISBN 10	0571203043
Titel	Annie Dunne
Autor	Sebastian Barry
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-05-20
Seitenanzahl	224
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