The Thrill of it All by Joseph O'connor
At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. This title tells a story of loyalties, friendship, the call of the muse, and the beguiling shimmer of teenage dreams.
Joseph O'Connor's The Thrill of it All uses layered narrative textures with both serious skill and engaging lightness so that the core drama emerges with clarity and wit-- Colm Toibin * Observer, Books of the Year, 2014 *
Occasionally, you read a sentence that you know couldn't be bettered: Joseph O'Connor's new novel is jam-packed with such sentences – paragraph after paragraph of brilliance * Guardian *
O'Connor at his playful and narrative best… shot through with electricity, packed with sentences that send you spinning, full of joy and sadness and swerve. This was a book to make my tired heart soar. Of all the Irish writers working today, Joe O'Connor speaks better than anyone of what is genuine, what is necessary, and what is ennobling. A thrill indeed. -- Colum McCann, winner of the US National Book Award and the Impac Award
[O’Connor] is warm without being sentimental, and he cuts effortlessly between comedy and tragedy. Music nerds will love the most satisfyingly voluminous playlists since High Fidelity -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
A novel about music, family and friendship...O'Connor brilliantly evokes the 1980s... This novel is shot through with humour, patois and all the human contradictions that make the characters truly memorable. * Mail on Sunday *
Occasionally, you read a sentence that you know couldn't be bettered: Joseph O'Connor's new novel is jam-packed with such sentences – paragraph after paragraph of brilliance * Guardian *
O'Connor at his playful and narrative best… shot through with electricity, packed with sentences that send you spinning, full of joy and sadness and swerve. This was a book to make my tired heart soar. Of all the Irish writers working today, Joe O'Connor speaks better than anyone of what is genuine, what is necessary, and what is ennobling. A thrill indeed. -- Colum McCann, winner of the US National Book Award and the Impac Award
[O’Connor] is warm without being sentimental, and he cuts effortlessly between comedy and tragedy. Music nerds will love the most satisfyingly voluminous playlists since High Fidelity -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
A novel about music, family and friendship...O'Connor brilliantly evokes the 1980s... This novel is shot through with humour, patois and all the human contradictions that make the characters truly memorable. * Mail on Sunday *
Joseph O’Connor was born in Dublin. His books include eight previous novels: Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011) and The Thrill of it All. His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for outstanding achievement in literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
www.josephoconnorauthor.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846553530 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846553539 |
| Title | The Thrill of it All |
| Author | Joseph O'connor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2014 (UK), Short-listed for Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards - Eason Novel of the Year 2014 (UK), Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2016 (UK) |
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