From the savage scalp-shearing of its start, through pages of figurative and literal black, to the 'good blue days' of its end, Grace is a thing of power and of wonder. Paul Lynch writes novels the way we need them to be written: as if every letter of every word mattered. This whole book is on fire. Edna O'Brien. "A terrible beauty: Paul Lynch's Grace, a shudderingly well-written, dead-real, hallucinatory trip across Famine Ireland."― Emma Donoghue, author of The Wonder "Lynch's wonderful third novel follows a teenage girl through impoverished Ireland at the height of the Great Famine/5(92). · The New York Times Book Review has selected Grace, Paul Lynch's third novel, as an Editors’ Choice, declaring as follows "The Irish writer’s third novel raises timeless questions about 8/
Told in bold and lyrical language by an author who has already been called "one of his generation's very finest novelists" (Ron Rash, author of The Risen), Grace is an epic coming-of-age novel and a poetic evocation of the Irish famine as it has never been written. ISBN: ISBN X. Audience: General. Lynch helps mitigate the pain a bit with his sometimes glorious language that is in startling juxtaposition to, and helps soften the focus of, the monstrousness of what happened to the Irish. In addition, the snarky humor of Grace and the offbeat discussions of the characters provide balance to the heaviness of the weight of events that. Paul Lynch is the prize-winning Irish author of four novels: BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the French booksellers' prize Prix Libr'à Nous for best foreign novel.
"A terrible beauty: Paul Lynch's Grace, a shudderingly well-written, dead-real, hallucinatory trip across Famine Ireland."― Emma Donoghue, author of The Wonder "Lynch's wonderful third novel follows a teenage girl through impoverished Ireland at the height of the Great Famine. Above all and through all it's a perfect story, an exhilarating, odyssean, heart-pounding, glorious story, wrought by a novelist with the eye and the ear and the heart of an absolute master of his trade. Paul Lynch is peerless. Grace Coyle, daughter of Coll, will be one of the enduring heroines of world literature.". From the savage scalp-shearing of its start, through pages of figurative and literal black, to the 'good blue days' of its end, Grace is a thing of power and of wonder. Paul Lynch writes novels the way we need them to be written: as if every letter of every word mattered. This whole book is on fire. Edna O'Brien.
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