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A brilliant tour de force melding time, place, and memory.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009514963217,"sku":"NIN9780916583057","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52583954022673,"sku":"NLS9780916583057","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52811507925265,"sku":"GOR014626493","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0916583058.jpg?v=1790162603"},{"product_id":"cadenza-rare-book-ralph-cusack-1760426777ada","title":"Cadenza","description":"1958. First Edition. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. 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Between room service sandwiches and whiskey, he sifts through his faulty memories of childhood, family, friends, and past lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCusack's fleet-footed prose carries us lightly from one vignette to the next, from gorgeous descriptions of Irish landscapes to hilarious character sketches and erotic incidents worthy of a screwball comedy. Interwoven temporalities fight for our attention in the second-ever title to be published by Dalkey Archive Press, written--as Gilbert Sorrentino says--\"with an Anglo-Irish arrogance worthy of Beckett.\" Dismissed as an autobiography when first published, Cadenza is a pioneering work of Irish autofiction. Toeing the line between what is real and imagined, memories and wish-fulfillments, Cusack's stream of consciousness prose begs to be followed to the very last page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ BOOKAZINE","offer_id":54599148175633,"sku":"NBZ9781628976670","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":54715541520657,"sku":"NIN9781628976670","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781628976670.jpg?v=1788901780"},{"product_id":"hyphenated-childhood-book-ralph-cusack-9781628976694","title":"A Hyphenated Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I shall begin well before the beginning. And end after the end. That is how it should be. And most of it will be lies, fabrications, inexactitudes, approximations, near misses, botched hits...\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRalph Cusack published only one novel in his lifetime: Cadenza, a meandering, autofictional journey through one man's memory often compared to the work of Joyce and Beckett. A Hyphenated Childhood, Cusack's previously unpublished and unfinished memoir, paints a rich portrait of the young life that influenced that novel. In charismatic, evocative prose, Cusack imagines the plight of his mother's pregnancy, unfolds dreamlike descriptions of the foggy hills of the countryside where he grew up, reflects upon the aftermath of the fight for Irish independence, and recalls summiting Mount Vesuvius on a family trip to Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThough unfinished--hyphenated--this portrait of an early twentieth-century Irish childhood stands as a remarkable tribute to the talent of one of the first writers to ever be published by Dalkey Archive Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ BOOKAZINE","offer_id":54604284789009,"sku":"NBZ9781628976694","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":54715541553425,"sku":"NIN9781628976694","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781628976694.jpg?v=1788946715"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-ralph-cusack.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}