Rainsongs by Sue Hubbard
Award-winning author Sue Hubbard, whose peerless and enduring voice combines the emotional intensity of John Banville and the lyrical evocation of Anne Enright, delivers in Rainsongs an affecting story of transformation.
Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a nearly abandoned village on the west coast of Ireland. There, she reflects on another loss in her life: that of her 10-year-old son, Bruno, who met an untimely death 20 years earlier. Alone on the windswept headland, surrounded by miles of cold sea, she feels the past closing in. As the days unfold, Martha searches for a way forward beyond grief, but finds herself drawn into a standoff between the successful hotel developer Eugene Riordan and an elderly local hill farmer, Paddy O'Connell.
As the crisis between these men escalates and Paddy suspiciously ends up in the hospital, Martha encounters Colm, a talented but much younger musician and poet--roughly the same age that Bruno would have been if he'd lived. Caught between her history and future, and that of a rapidly changing Ireland, Martha is beset with choices that will alter her life forever.
Rainsongs conjures the rugged beauty of the remote Irish coastline and the inner landscapes of its characters in richly poetic language, moving effortlessly between the lives of people and the life of the terrain, between the forces that shape character and those that shape the world. It unfolds as a compelling tale of grief, art, and the fragile, quiet ways in which time and place can offer a measure of redemption.
Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a nearly abandoned village on the west coast of Ireland. There, she reflects on another loss in her life: that of her 10-year-old son, Bruno, who met an untimely death 20 years earlier. Alone on the windswept headland, surrounded by miles of cold sea, she feels the past closing in. As the days unfold, Martha searches for a way forward beyond grief, but finds herself drawn into a standoff between the successful hotel developer Eugene Riordan and an elderly local hill farmer, Paddy O'Connell.
As the crisis between these men escalates and Paddy suspiciously ends up in the hospital, Martha encounters Colm, a talented but much younger musician and poet--roughly the same age that Bruno would have been if he'd lived. Caught between her history and future, and that of a rapidly changing Ireland, Martha is beset with choices that will alter her life forever.
Rainsongs conjures the rugged beauty of the remote Irish coastline and the inner landscapes of its characters in richly poetic language, moving effortlessly between the lives of people and the life of the terrain, between the forces that shape character and those that shape the world. It unfolds as a compelling tale of grief, art, and the fragile, quiet ways in which time and place can offer a measure of redemption.
Sue Hubbard is a poet, novelist, art critic, and lecturer and a regular contributor to The Independent and The New Statesman on contemporary art. She has written widely - including for The Independent on Sunday, Art Review, Contemporary, Tate, Third Text and The RA Magazine - as well as many catalogue essays on leading artists.
Twice winner of the London Writers competition, Hubbard was the Poetry Society's first-ever Public Art Poet, and in 2006 she was awarded a major Arts Council Literary Award. She has published several collections of poems, including Everything Begins with the Skin and Ghost Station. Her latest collection of short stories is Rothko's Red and Other Stories/ Depth of Field, her first novel, was published in 2000 and described by John Berger as a remarkable first novel. Having been a tutor at Lumb Bank for the Arvon Foundation she now teaches and lectures at a number of major art schools.
Twice winner of the London Writers competition, Hubbard was the Poetry Society's first-ever Public Art Poet, and in 2006 she was awarded a major Arts Council Literary Award. She has published several collections of poems, including Everything Begins with the Skin and Ghost Station. Her latest collection of short stories is Rothko's Red and Other Stories/ Depth of Field, her first novel, was published in 2000 and described by John Berger as a remarkable first novel. Having been a tutor at Lumb Bank for the Arvon Foundation she now teaches and lectures at a number of major art schools.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781468316636 |
| ISBN 10 | 146831663X |
| Titel | Rainsongs |
| Autor | Sue Hubbard |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | The Overlook Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2018-10-09 |
| Seitenanzahl | 240 |
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