Beyond Consolation by John Waters
Deals with the process by which the hope of a society was sabotaged and plundered in the name of a mis-defined freedom and a utopia of the now. This book explores a language to excavate the journey of Irish society from what appeared to be profound in its traditional faith to a moment of what may have been taken as a moment of nihilistic clarity.
Title mention in Irish Post March 2010
Review in Sunday Tribune The Arts, April 2010
Title mentioned in The Catholic Herald, April 2010.
Threaded through the text is a moving account by Waters on his own spiritual journey. The Irish Times, 22nd June 2010
Lapsed Agnostic and Beyond Consolation are a pair of pointed meditations on the experience of a generation that...finds itself entering the last decades of life without certainties and without rites. ...It is [Waters'] rigor-of judgement and of conscience-that makes his books worth reading.-Commonweal
The author is brutal in his critique of the oversimplifications and gullabilities of modern culture. Church of Ireland Gazette, 2nd July 2010
'[There are] colourful glimpses into Waters's personal life and the life of Ireland; the customs of neighbours, his love of the courntyside, his relationship with his daughter ... Strikingly poetic.' Church Times, 23rd july 2010
'Spellbinding' Cathloic Herald, July 23rd 2010
'Beyond Consolation is a wonderful book and a very important publication for oue times' Midland Tribune August 12th 2010 and Tullamore Tribune August 12th 2010
Review in The Sunday Times, 25th April 2010.
A mention on the Ilusussidiario.net website. [A] beautiful book.
Review in thePost.ie, 3rd May 2010.
Review in Irish Examiner, 24th May 2010 John Waters readily embraces and endorses Pope Benedict XVI's conviction that you cannot know true happiness or real meaning unless you have God in your life.
Interview with the author in RTE Guide, 22nd May 2010.
The best passages by far are those which incorporate Waters' reflections on his own life.RTE Guide, 12th June 2010
Review in Sunday Tribune The Arts, April 2010
Title mentioned in The Catholic Herald, April 2010.
Threaded through the text is a moving account by Waters on his own spiritual journey. The Irish Times, 22nd June 2010
Lapsed Agnostic and Beyond Consolation are a pair of pointed meditations on the experience of a generation that...finds itself entering the last decades of life without certainties and without rites. ...It is [Waters'] rigor-of judgement and of conscience-that makes his books worth reading.-Commonweal
The author is brutal in his critique of the oversimplifications and gullabilities of modern culture. Church of Ireland Gazette, 2nd July 2010
'[There are] colourful glimpses into Waters's personal life and the life of Ireland; the customs of neighbours, his love of the courntyside, his relationship with his daughter ... Strikingly poetic.' Church Times, 23rd july 2010
'Spellbinding' Cathloic Herald, July 23rd 2010
'Beyond Consolation is a wonderful book and a very important publication for oue times' Midland Tribune August 12th 2010 and Tullamore Tribune August 12th 2010
Review in The Sunday Times, 25th April 2010.
A mention on the Ilusussidiario.net website. [A] beautiful book.
Review in thePost.ie, 3rd May 2010.
Review in Irish Examiner, 24th May 2010 John Waters readily embraces and endorses Pope Benedict XVI's conviction that you cannot know true happiness or real meaning unless you have God in your life.
Interview with the author in RTE Guide, 22nd May 2010.
The best passages by far are those which incorporate Waters' reflections on his own life.RTE Guide, 12th June 2010
John Waters is an author, playwright and newspaper columnist. He contributes to a number of publications in Britain and Ireland including a weekly column for The Irish Times and the Catholic weekly The Voice Daily. He lives in Dun Laoghaire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781441114211 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441114211 |
| Title | Beyond Consolation |
| Author | John Waters |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2010-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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