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Autor: WILLIAMS,Niall
Editorial: BLOOMSBURY
Lenguaje: Inglés
ISBN13: 9781408852057
Reseña: We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha County Clare everyone is a long story... Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain in the margin between this world and the next Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him enfolded in the mystery of ancestors Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain her great-grandfather to grandfather Abraham to her father Virgil - via pole-vaulting leaping salmon poetry and the three thousand nine hundred and fifty eight books piled high beneath the two skylights in her room beneath the rain. The stories - of her golden twin brother Aeney their closeness even as he slips away of their dogged pursuit of the Swains Impossible Standard and forever falling just short of the wild rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming land in Ireland - pour forth in Ruthies still small strong hopeful voice. A celebration of books love and the healing power of the imagination this is an exquisite funny moving novel in which every sentence sings.
