The Coast Road
Autor Alan Murrinen Paperback – 4 iun 2024
Ce preț ești dispus să plătești pentru o fărâmă de libertate într-o lume care nu este încă pregătită să ți-o ofere? Aceasta este miza psihologică profundă pe care Alan Murrin o explorează în The Coast Road, un debut care ne-a impresionat prin finețea observației sociale. Ne aflăm în 1994, într-o Irlandă rurală din Donegal, unde ecourile modernizării se aud, dar legile și moravurile rămân ancorate în trecut. Colette Crowley, o femeie care a îndrăznit să sfideze convențiile părăsindu-și soțul și copiii pentru o viață boemă în Dublin, se întoarce acasă, declanșând o undă de șoc într-o comunitate închisă.
Găsim în această scriere o dualitate fascinantă: pe de o parte, dorința sfâșietoare a unei mame de a-și recupera copiii, iar pe de altă parte, rigiditatea unui sistem în care divorțul este încă ilegal. Stilul lui Alan Murrin este precis și evocativ, evitând sentimentalismul în favoarea unei tensiuni mocnite. Ritmul narațiunii se accelerează pe măsură ce prietenia dintre Colette și Izzy, o mamă devotată dar captivă în propria rutină, devine catalizatorul unor transformări ireversibile. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Night Swimmers de Roisin Maguire, prin decorul costier irlandez și portretul comunităților mici, deși The Coast Road marchează o voce proprie printr-o dimensiune politică și juridică mai accentuată, specifică momentului istoric ales.
Este un roman despre consecințele actului de a merge împotriva curentului, scris de un autor care stăpânește arta detaliului semnificativ. Apreciem modul în care Alan Murrin transformă o dramă domestică într-o radiografie a unei întregi societăți aflate la granița dintre tradiție și schimbare.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780063415355
ISBN-10: 0063415356
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 155 x 228 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
ISBN-10: 0063415356
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 155 x 228 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
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Recomandăm The Coast Road celor care apreciază proza irlandeză contemporană și dramele psihologice de profunzime. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege tensiunile sociale din Irlanda anilor '90, oferind o perspectivă empatică asupra condiției feminine. Cititorul câștigă o poveste emoționantă despre solidaritate și curaj, validată de premiul Newcomer of the Year 2024 la An Post Irish Book Awards.
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WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024
A WOMEN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'A perfect book club read ... Assured and powerful' SUNDAY TIMES
'A compelling, compassionate page-turner' OBSERVER
'I loved this novel ... An addictive read' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel' SARAH WINMAN
'A beautiful, accomplished debut' LOUISE KENNEDY
'Impressive' TLS
'An absolute triumph ... I loved everything about it' GILL HORNBY
It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley - the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette is back, and nobody knows why.
Returning to the community to try and reclaim her old life, Colette quickly learns that they are unwilling to give it back to her. The man to whom she is still married is denying her access to her children, and while the legalisation of divorce might be just around the corner, Colette finds herself caught between her old life and the freedom for which she risked everything. Desperate to see her children, she enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey - one toward a path of self-discovery, and the other toward tragedy.
Brilliantly observed from a sharp new literary talent, The Coast Road is a novel about a closed community and the consequences of daring to move against the tide.
WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024
A WOMEN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'A perfect book club read ... Assured and powerful' SUNDAY TIMES
'A compelling, compassionate page-turner' OBSERVER
'I loved this novel ... An addictive read' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel' SARAH WINMAN
'A beautiful, accomplished debut' LOUISE KENNEDY
'Impressive' TLS
'An absolute triumph ... I loved everything about it' GILL HORNBY
It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley - the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette is back, and nobody knows why.
Returning to the community to try and reclaim her old life, Colette quickly learns that they are unwilling to give it back to her. The man to whom she is still married is denying her access to her children, and while the legalisation of divorce might be just around the corner, Colette finds herself caught between her old life and the freedom for which she risked everything. Desperate to see her children, she enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey - one toward a path of self-discovery, and the other toward tragedy.
Brilliantly observed from a sharp new literary talent, The Coast Road is a novel about a closed community and the consequences of daring to move against the tide.
Recenzii
Beautifully written ... The novel is wonderful on what it means to live in a patriarchal society and the consequences women can suffer for trying to follow their dreams. Compelling
Murrin's novel is immaculately crafted, his characterisation beautifully nuanced ... Murrin's scrutiny of the community's prejudice is shot through with humour, while he writes perceptively about love, desire and the limitations placed on women ... A compelling, compassionate page-turner
Packed with shenanigans - affairs, separations, deaths, priests and politics - the narrative unfolds in a gossipy rush that is well suited to the small town milieu. But Murrin attends to a different kind of desperation too, the real and heartbreaking lack of agency for women in difficult, unsatisfying marriages in twentieth century Ireland. This is what elevates his novel, bringing the lives of his distinctive female characters into high definition ... Murrin switches with remarkable ease between the perspectives ... An engrossing read ... A gripping character-driven novel that is accessible and literary in style
An absolute zinger ... A beautifully told, interwoven story full of really vivid characters ... If I didn't know it was a man who wrote it, I would definitely say it was a woman who wrote it, because he gets under the skin of the women characters in particular really well. Highly recommend it, it's a beautiful read
If the book club queen Reese Witherspoon relocated to the Irish Republic, this would tick all her boxes ... This is an assured and powerful debut, and Murrin shows impressive imaginative power in inhabiting the hopes and fears of married, middle-aged mothers. It's well worth a slot in your book club calendar ... It is thoughtful, readable and funny, and even occasionally thrilling ... An assured and powerful debut, and Murrin shows impressive imaginative power
'Scandal, hypocrisy and the stigma of divorce make this Irish novel sing ... The story is crisply told ... Murrin is sceptically yet tenderly observant'
With nuanced observations, humour and heartbreak, the novel mirrors the backdrop of the sea, whose ebb and flow belies dangerous currents below the surface
I loved this novel. All the female characters are complex and fascinating, and full of anger and hope. I found it an addictive read
Alan Murrin is a gifted storyteller, his characters so fully realised I fretted for them as I read. A beautiful, accomplished debut
I have been rooted to my sun bed gulping it down ... What an absolute triumph, and even more astonishing for being a debut. I loved everything about it and can't wait to read what he does next
Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers. The Coast Road is set in Donegal the year before divorce became legal in Ireland, and the many themes are equally - sadly - as relevant now. Women's autonomy is beautifully scrutinised in a shifting tempo that moves between rage, forgiveness and hope. It's a stonkingly good novel. Just read it
Tender, truthful and simmering with rage ... An emotionally eviscerating tale, told in deceptively calm prose
Cheating husbands and wayward wives in a tiny coastal town, set during a time when divorce in Ireland was illegal, Alan Murrin's The Coast Road had me at hello. The writing is spare and elegant, the setting atmospheric - indeed, Murrin's Ardglas is a character in its own right. An assured, gripping debut from an author I hope to read more of
Psychologically rich, emotionally resonant, and powered by a vivid cast of characters, The Coast Road explores the intimacies that bind individuals and communities together - for better and for worse. This is an incredibly satisfying novel, told with great tenderness and tremendous storytelling verve. A book to be savoured
A smashing debut ... Each of the characters is vividly rendered, and Murrin excels at portraying the rippling consequences of small-town gossip and intolerance. This is a marvel
This beautifully atmospheric novel is a dark, unsettling warning about how easily narrow attitudes can turn into dangerous ones. An eerie, urgent debut from an exciting new voice
Propelled by a gripping narrative and powerfully drawn characters The Coast Road makes for compulsive reading. Alan Murrin has written a poignant, utterly truthful story of passions prejudice and tragedy in a small town. Brilliant
An exceptional debut about marriage and freedom, about love and the ways it can heal and hurt us. A must read for 2024
This story of tragedy and strength casts you into the waves of small-town life
Murrin writes with a masterful ease and confidence ... This is a strong story well told
Murrin inhabits his female characters with impressive confidence
Alan Murrin is one of the sharpest new minds on the literary scene
An astonishingly assured piece of writing ... An intricate and deeply compassionate study of women's lives and the forces that shape them
Impressive ... The Coast Road is entirely invested in its characters [and] captures suggestively a specific moment somewhere between Éamon de Valera's conservatism and the vainglory of the Celtic Tiger era ... It is also an intriguing addition to the the swelling library of contemporary Irish novels - Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These [and] Paul Murray's The Bee Sting
The setting of The Coast Road is both viscerally realised and intensely purposeful ... Murrin's insight into the female experience is practically note-perfect
A compelling snapshot of one conservative Catholic community ahead of a landmark change to domestic life ... Murrin is an astute and sensitive writer ... in Murrin's capable hands, it's a story that will make you think - not least about the slow pace of change in Catholic Ireland
An assured, engrossing and enviably readable debut
Alan Murrin's The Coast Road weaves a story of suspense, resentment and desire in 1994 Ireland ... written in prose that's as moody, striking and lovely as the landscape ... [a] compelling, suspenseful novel
Murrin's story has crispness, tenderness and observative power in equal measure
This beautiful, astute, and powerful novel has been one of our favourites since its publication
Murrin's novel is immaculately crafted, his characterisation beautifully nuanced ... Murrin's scrutiny of the community's prejudice is shot through with humour, while he writes perceptively about love, desire and the limitations placed on women ... A compelling, compassionate page-turner
Packed with shenanigans - affairs, separations, deaths, priests and politics - the narrative unfolds in a gossipy rush that is well suited to the small town milieu. But Murrin attends to a different kind of desperation too, the real and heartbreaking lack of agency for women in difficult, unsatisfying marriages in twentieth century Ireland. This is what elevates his novel, bringing the lives of his distinctive female characters into high definition ... Murrin switches with remarkable ease between the perspectives ... An engrossing read ... A gripping character-driven novel that is accessible and literary in style
An absolute zinger ... A beautifully told, interwoven story full of really vivid characters ... If I didn't know it was a man who wrote it, I would definitely say it was a woman who wrote it, because he gets under the skin of the women characters in particular really well. Highly recommend it, it's a beautiful read
If the book club queen Reese Witherspoon relocated to the Irish Republic, this would tick all her boxes ... This is an assured and powerful debut, and Murrin shows impressive imaginative power in inhabiting the hopes and fears of married, middle-aged mothers. It's well worth a slot in your book club calendar ... It is thoughtful, readable and funny, and even occasionally thrilling ... An assured and powerful debut, and Murrin shows impressive imaginative power
'Scandal, hypocrisy and the stigma of divorce make this Irish novel sing ... The story is crisply told ... Murrin is sceptically yet tenderly observant'
With nuanced observations, humour and heartbreak, the novel mirrors the backdrop of the sea, whose ebb and flow belies dangerous currents below the surface
I loved this novel. All the female characters are complex and fascinating, and full of anger and hope. I found it an addictive read
Alan Murrin is a gifted storyteller, his characters so fully realised I fretted for them as I read. A beautiful, accomplished debut
I have been rooted to my sun bed gulping it down ... What an absolute triumph, and even more astonishing for being a debut. I loved everything about it and can't wait to read what he does next
Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers. The Coast Road is set in Donegal the year before divorce became legal in Ireland, and the many themes are equally - sadly - as relevant now. Women's autonomy is beautifully scrutinised in a shifting tempo that moves between rage, forgiveness and hope. It's a stonkingly good novel. Just read it
Tender, truthful and simmering with rage ... An emotionally eviscerating tale, told in deceptively calm prose
Cheating husbands and wayward wives in a tiny coastal town, set during a time when divorce in Ireland was illegal, Alan Murrin's The Coast Road had me at hello. The writing is spare and elegant, the setting atmospheric - indeed, Murrin's Ardglas is a character in its own right. An assured, gripping debut from an author I hope to read more of
Psychologically rich, emotionally resonant, and powered by a vivid cast of characters, The Coast Road explores the intimacies that bind individuals and communities together - for better and for worse. This is an incredibly satisfying novel, told with great tenderness and tremendous storytelling verve. A book to be savoured
A smashing debut ... Each of the characters is vividly rendered, and Murrin excels at portraying the rippling consequences of small-town gossip and intolerance. This is a marvel
This beautifully atmospheric novel is a dark, unsettling warning about how easily narrow attitudes can turn into dangerous ones. An eerie, urgent debut from an exciting new voice
Propelled by a gripping narrative and powerfully drawn characters The Coast Road makes for compulsive reading. Alan Murrin has written a poignant, utterly truthful story of passions prejudice and tragedy in a small town. Brilliant
An exceptional debut about marriage and freedom, about love and the ways it can heal and hurt us. A must read for 2024
This story of tragedy and strength casts you into the waves of small-town life
Murrin writes with a masterful ease and confidence ... This is a strong story well told
Murrin inhabits his female characters with impressive confidence
Alan Murrin is one of the sharpest new minds on the literary scene
An astonishingly assured piece of writing ... An intricate and deeply compassionate study of women's lives and the forces that shape them
Impressive ... The Coast Road is entirely invested in its characters [and] captures suggestively a specific moment somewhere between Éamon de Valera's conservatism and the vainglory of the Celtic Tiger era ... It is also an intriguing addition to the the swelling library of contemporary Irish novels - Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These [and] Paul Murray's The Bee Sting
The setting of The Coast Road is both viscerally realised and intensely purposeful ... Murrin's insight into the female experience is practically note-perfect
A compelling snapshot of one conservative Catholic community ahead of a landmark change to domestic life ... Murrin is an astute and sensitive writer ... in Murrin's capable hands, it's a story that will make you think - not least about the slow pace of change in Catholic Ireland
An assured, engrossing and enviably readable debut
Alan Murrin's The Coast Road weaves a story of suspense, resentment and desire in 1994 Ireland ... written in prose that's as moody, striking and lovely as the landscape ... [a] compelling, suspenseful novel
Murrin's story has crispness, tenderness and observative power in equal measure
This beautiful, astute, and powerful novel has been one of our favourites since its publication