Adrian Duncan

The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

AN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025

'An original voice' Colm Tóibín

'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times

'A deliberative and delicate reading experience, revelatory in the truest sense of that word' Guardian

During winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life.

Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking him to pray for the speedy death of an ailing friend. Over a day-long odyssey through the ancient streets and churches of Bologna, John is forced to confront his present, his past and the bedrock of his psyche. A delicately crafted novel of two halves, a decade apart, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth is a masterful excavation of human desires, inhibitions, and the patterns of habit to which we unwittingly fall prey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805221951
• Artikelnr.: 72353087

Autorenporträt

Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist and writer who originally trained as a structural engineer. Duncan was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2023, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award in 2023 and 2021, longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2021 and won the John McGahern Book Prize in 2020.