Lisa McInerney
Autore di Peccati gloriosi
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Lisa McInerney was born in 1981 in Ireland. She started the blog, Arse End of Ireland. It won the 2009 Irish Blog Awards Best Humor Award. She writes contemporary fiction. Her short stories includes Saturday, Boring, Berghain, Redoubt, and The Butcher's Apron. Her debut novel, The Glorious mostra altro Heresies, won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2016, as well as the Desmond Elliott Prize 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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The Glorious Heresies is a gritty, dark, gothic Shakespearean tragedy set in post crash Ireland.
6 people linked together as a result of a dead man.
Tony a father of 6 who is a drunk and an abusive father especially towards his son Ryan.
Jimmy, a high school friend of Tony's who is now an Irish gangster/ crime lord who uses people for his needs.
Maureen, jimmy's long lost mother, a woman who fell from the good graces of her family by getting pregnant and was shipped of to London for a couple of decades until Jimmy found her and brought her back. Her hatred of the church is enormous.
Georgie, a whore and a drug addict who knows no other way, and who unfortunately lands on Jimmy's radar.
Tara, a complete degenerate, neighbor of Tony and Ryan who procures drugs and liquor for Georgie among others, and has a love hate relationship with Tony and his family.
Ryan, at the start of the book is a 15 year old drug dealer who happens to deal to Georgie among so many, and is lacking any direction and focus in his life. By 20 he is a significant coke dealer and a near perfect train wreck.
Each character is a degenerate to some degree or another, and the dark depressing Ireland they live in certainly doesn't offer much hope.
Parts of the book read of a tragic comedy, but you know there will be few if any happy endings.
One of the most amazing things about this book is that it is the authors first. The writing is amazing with each chapter told from a different character and yet they never blend together, each character remains the same throughout. This is an author to watch for in the future.
American readers will do well to have the Internet handy as there is a considerable amount of Irish slang which may be very unfamiliar, similar to reading some of Irvine Welsh's books. The language of this book is also similar to Mr Welsh's books as well, so you have been warned.… (altro)