Factory Girls: A bold snapshot of working young women during the tumultuous Troubles
Autor Michelle Gallenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mai 2023
Ce preț are libertatea atunci când ești captiv între zidurile unei fabrici dintr-un oraș măcinat de ură și sectarism? În Factory Girls, Michelle Gallen ne transportă în atmosfera densă și electrică a Irlandei de Nord din perioada conflictului 'The Troubles'. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în contrastul brutal dintre spiritul tineresc, plin de umor negru și dorințe vulgare, și realitatea sumbră a unei campanii paramilitare care se strecoară în viața de zi cu zi. Notăm cu interes cum autoarea construiește figura lui Maeve Murray, o tânără cu o limbă ascuțită care calcă sute de cămăși pe zi, visând la o evadare spre Londra, departe de amintirea surorii decedate și de privirile indiscrete ale comunității. Pe același raft cu Hand in the Till de Gerald Hansen, cartea se distinge prin modul în care echilibrează comedia feroce cu o tristețe sfâșietoare, evitând orice urmă de sentimentalism ieftin. Dacă în lucrarea sa anterioară, Big Girl, Small Town, Michelle Gallen explora limitele unei vieți rutinate prin ochii unei protagoniste atipice, aici extinde cadrul narativ către dinamica de grup din interiorul fabricii, unde sezonul marșurilor transformă colegialitatea în suspiciune. Stilul este alert, marcat de un limbaj colocvial autentic și de o perspectivă onestă asupra condiției femeii din clasa muncitoare, forțată să navigheze printre avansurile dubioase ale șefilor și amenințările politice care plutesc în aer.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1529386284
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această lectură celor care apreciază umorul irlandez tăios și poveștile despre maturizare în condiții adverse. Cititorul va descoperi o voce narativă vibrantă, care reușește să transforme corvoada muncii în fabrică și tensiunea politică într-o experiență profund umană. Este o carte despre curajul de a spera la mai mult într-un mediu care îți cere doar conformare, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra vieții femeilor în timpul conflictelor nord-irlandeze.
Despre autor
Michelle Gallen este o scriitoare nord-irlandeză a cărei operă este profund ancorată în realitățile sociale și politice ale regiunii sale natale. S-a făcut remarcată pe scena literară cu romanul de debut Big Girl, Small Town, care a fost inclus pe lista scurtă pentru prestigiosul premiu Costa. Stilul său este caracterizat de un amestec distinct de umor subversiv și observație socială fină, reușind să captureze particularitățile limbajului și mentalității locale fără a recurge la stereotipuri. Prin Factory Girls, Gallen își consolidează reputația de cronicar al vieții cotidiene în contexte istorice tensionate.
Descriere
'Entertaining, touching and savagely funny' Sunday Times
'Vital, bang-on, and seriously funny' Roddy Doyle
It's the summer of 1994, and all Maeve Murray wants is some money and good exam results so she can escape her shitty wee town in Northern Ireland.
Over the holidays, Maeve bags herself a job at the local shirt factory with her best friends Caroline and Aoife. It's set to be the summer of their lives, but first she's got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign as brutal as her relationship with her mam, iron 800 shirts a day to keep her job and dodge the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her slimy English boss. And when she starts to notice things aren't adding up at the factory, it seems like revealing the truth may just be her one-way ticket out of town.
WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE
Recenzii
A cracking follow-up - at times savagely funny, but with a loamy undertow of complex feeling . . . Fans of the contemporary Irish authors Lisa McInerney and Louise Kennedy should enjoy it too.
This brash and lively novel is a black comedy of great skill and wit . . . Raucous, in your face, sexually frank and (often hilariously) politically incorrect . . . it's intoxicating, defiant, bitter laughter in the dark, knowing comedy at its blackest pitch
Full of the stuff that we're starting to expect of Michelle Gallen; wild, hilariously angry characters, and language that is vital, bang-on, and seriously funny
A wee novel with an enormous, furious heart . . . Honest, hilarious and such a recognisable portrait of 90s Northern Ireland, Factory Girls is an essential read
Majella O'Neill was no flash-in-the-pan - Factory Girls is a powerful second novel. It has all of Gallen's flair for character, her ear for dialogue and her unparalleled sense of comic timing. And this novel cuts deeper, throbs with pent-up fury, a palpable sense of real and urgent despair. Viciously funny
Brilliantly observed and full of heart, Factory Girls will be up there on my list of best books for this year
A gorgeous, gritty and hilarious love letter to working class Northern Ireland in the 1990s. Gallen's protagonist, Maeve Murray . . . is a compelling creation who crackles brilliantly from the first pages
A riot of a read. A masterclass in voice, the North and the 90s
One of the most moving and hilarious novels I have ever read . . . Factory Girls is one of the best books ever written about the Troubles, and one of the best books I've read in a very long time
Provocative in more ways than one!
A much-awaited second triumph of dark humour - fabulous, dirty dancing words, that lift the soul. Gallen knows how to move us and make us roar at the same time. Jumping out with hysteria, Maeve is the hilarious queen of truth we all want to be
Some writers make you think; some writers make you laugh till you cry. Michelle Gallen belongs to that rare, rare group of writers who make you think even as the tears are tripping you. Factory Girls is a seriously funny novel - that manages at the same time to be deadly serious - about work, about friendship, about Northern Ireland in the months leading up to the 1994 ceasefire, and about being a teenager, any time, anywhere
The perfect pick for those missing their dose of Derry Girls
Gallen writes with such verve and vivacity, her pacing pitch perfect and her dialogue sharp, true and laugh out loud funny. . . In Maeve, the factory and the town, we feel the heat of the 90s in Northern Ireland, the strength and weakness of teenage friendships against a simmering backdrop of turmoil and change - everything moving forward despite the hold the past has on the place. Gallen's evocation of community and place is extraordinary, a masterclass in dark humour.
Michelle Gallen's Factory Girls pulses with dark, irreverent humor. Set in a place where dreams are laughable at best, dangerous at worst, it's a big F you to the only world these characters know. And yet, there's vulnerability here. Hope, too. I loved it.
Impossible to put down, and packed with more humour and poignancy than a Catholic funeral, Factory Girls is a bold and brilliant snapshot of working-class lives during the North's most tumultuous period
Gallen manages to take a dark and violent period in history and turn it into one of the most moving and hilarious novels I have ever read. The rich cast of characters will break your heart and make you laugh out loud, sometimes within the same paragraph. I found it difficult to put this book down; while reading it the rest of the world fell away and I was transported to Northern Ireland via an unforgettable voice and a steadily boiling story of friendship, grief, and determination. Factory Girls is one of the best books ever written about The Troubles, and one of the best books I've read in a very long time
Original and compelling . . . Gallen's comic, insightful novel . . . shares brilliantly the tangled stories of young women in a struggling provincial town. . . . Factory Girls brings a hidden generation of young women to the literary stage, and does so in a flurry of 'thons' and 'skitters'.
If the cast of Derry Girls worked in a shirtmaking factory . . . There's a lot of laugh-out-loud humour . . . but at its heart it's an emotional read
Gallen's pen draws blood with the sharpness of her observations, rendering a fresh and acutely more complex portrait of Northern Ireland through Maeve's eyes . . . Brilliantly, wickedly funny and soul-crushingly sad, Gallen has written the Vienetta of books this summer
Funny, poignant and provocative
This novel is a wonder; the heroine is cheeky, the humour dark, the dialect thick, the sorrow palpable. Fans of Kenneth Branagh's Belfast and television's Derry Girls will find much to love
Darkly comic
One of the most entertaining, engagingly written summer reads you will lay your hands on
Hilariously funny and heartbreakingly sad. Don't read this book in public if you don't like howling with laughter, or weeping, in front of strangers