The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small
Autor Neil Jordanen Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2023
South Carolina, 1781: the American Revolution.
An enslaved man escaping to his freedom saves the life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a British army officer and the younger son of one of Ireland's grandest families.
The tale that unfolds is narrated by Tony Small, the formerly enslaved man who becomes Fitzgerald's companion-and best friend. While details of Lord Edward's life are well documented, little is known of Tony Small, who is at the heart of this moving novel. In this gripping narrative, his character considers the ironies of empire, captivity, and freedom, mapping Lord Edward's journey from being a loyal subject of the British Empire to becoming a leader of the disastrous Irish rebellion of 1798.
This powerful new work of fiction brings Neil Jordan's inimitable storytelling ability to the revolutions that shaped the eighteenth century-in America, France, and, finally, in Ireland.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781639364534
ISBN-10: 1639364536
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Pegasusbooks
ISBN-10: 1639364536
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Pegasusbooks
Caracteristici
An extraordinary historical novel about a man who has so far been relegated to the footnotes of Irish history.
Notă biografică
Neil Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter and author based in Dublin. His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He is also a former winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Irish PEN Award, and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Jordan's films include Angel, the Academy Award-winning The Crying Game, Michael Collins and The Butcher Boy.
Recenzii
A masterwork from one of the most inventive artists of our day
An expertly spun ballad defined by themes of belonging, illusion and, fundamentally, fidelity
Jordan is a writer of uncommon talent, particularly around pacing and visual description
The historical research is evident [and] as with his previous novels, Jordan creates an evocative sense of time and place... Although the book is an odyssey, tracking thousands of miles across the globe, the pace is leisurely
Neil Jordan is one of Ireland's greatest, if ever-so-slightly unsung, novelists
The historical facts are here, in this beautiful work, laid out like a Dublin street ballad with its verses and chorus and a short afterword, containing a chapter poignantly titled 'The Greatest of These' from Corinthians 13, and Jordan doesn't seek to reinvent these men, rather to enhance them
This panoramic, painstakingly researched novel - told through Small's voice - is a convincing reconstruction of the way their lives interlocked despite origins in diametrically opposed worlds
Creates a vivid new perspective
An atmospheric take on a fascinating friendship
This strange relationship - of indenture, but also of mutual need - defines this thrillingly written, gripping tale that revisits many of Jordan's lifelong preoccupations with class, Irishness and sexuality to powerful moving effect
An expertly spun ballad defined by themes of belonging, illusion and, fundamentally, fidelity
Jordan is a writer of uncommon talent, particularly around pacing and visual description
The historical research is evident [and] as with his previous novels, Jordan creates an evocative sense of time and place... Although the book is an odyssey, tracking thousands of miles across the globe, the pace is leisurely
Neil Jordan is one of Ireland's greatest, if ever-so-slightly unsung, novelists
The historical facts are here, in this beautiful work, laid out like a Dublin street ballad with its verses and chorus and a short afterword, containing a chapter poignantly titled 'The Greatest of These' from Corinthians 13, and Jordan doesn't seek to reinvent these men, rather to enhance them
This panoramic, painstakingly researched novel - told through Small's voice - is a convincing reconstruction of the way their lives interlocked despite origins in diametrically opposed worlds
Creates a vivid new perspective
An atmospheric take on a fascinating friendship
This strange relationship - of indenture, but also of mutual need - defines this thrillingly written, gripping tale that revisits many of Jordan's lifelong preoccupations with class, Irishness and sexuality to powerful moving effect