One Day as a Tiger - Softcover
The illicit romance of Irish academic dropout Marty Hawkins with his brother's wife. The setting is a farm with genetically engineered animals--one a sheep with human genes--and the romance plays out against the background of the new Ireland, a vibrant member of the European Union.Marty, a brilliant student at Trinity College, Dublin, abandons his career and his friends and returns to the family farm when a tragedy strikes, where he runs into trouble with his brother, Pierce, and develops a secret attraction to Pierce's wife, Etti
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"It takes style, confidence and originality to pull off such an ostensibly wierd narrative, and Haverty displays all three. A crazily intelligent depiction of rural Ireland" (Fiona Gray Mail on Sunday)
"A novel written with enormous confidence and flair. It has a lightness and a sense of comic timing which is absent from most contemporary Irish fiction, but it also has a real sense of darkness and the grotesque" (Colm Toibín)
"A work of rare enchantment... Elements from the mainstream of Irish fiction... combine with the kind of magic realism one assiciates with Latin America. It is beautifully done. To that long list of Irish writers who write better English than the English, a new name can be added" (David Robson Sunday Telegraph)
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"A novel written with enormous confidence and flair. It has a lightness and a sense of comic timing which is absent from most contemporary Irish fiction, but it also has a real sense of darkness and the grotesque" (Colm Toibín)
"A work of rare enchantment... Elements from the mainstream of Irish fiction... combine with the kind of magic realism one assiciates with Latin America. It is beautifully done. To that long list of Irish writers who write better English than the English, a new name can be added" (David Robson Sunday Telegraph)
'Wonderful... Brilliantly done... I cannot remember when I last so enjoyed or admired a novel' - Literary Review
Winner of the Rooney Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Winner of the Rooney Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.
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- PublisherECCO Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0880016671
- ISBN 13 9780880016674
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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