Karl Geary

Montpelier Parade (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"[An] accomplished debut. . . . The novel is narrated entirely in the second person, a stylistic choice that produces moments of intense intimacy.The New Yorker "Geary enters the literary arena with a bang: this debut about an unconventional love affair between a teenage boy and an older woman is unassuming but gorgeously rendered."Publishers Weekly,starred and boxed review Montpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach. Hoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belongingat high school, in his parttime job at the butcher shop, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own familySonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future? Unfolding over a bright, rainsoaked Dublin spring, Montpelier Parade is a rich, devastating debut novel about desire, grief, ambition, art, and the choices we must make alone.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781936787531
• Artikelnr.: 60857690

Autorenporträt

Karl Geary was born in Dublin, and moved to New York City at age sixteen. He cofounded two East Village institutions: the music venue Siné, and later the Scratcher. He has worked as a scriptwriter (Coney Island Baby) and an actor (Michael Almereyda's Hamlet; Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall), and has adapted and directed Dorothy Parker's story You Were Perfectly Fine for the screen. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and daughter.

Rezensionen

A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel by Karl Geary. He's yet another masterful younger writer coming through. But these writers aren't just promising, they are arriving fully fledged, like a bunch of Hemingways and Waughs. (A pride of Hemingways?) This is language on the side of life, suggesting life, giving life. Wonderful. Sebastian Barry