The Fields - Softcover

Maher, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316223557 ISBN 13: 9780316223553

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2014

Synopsis

Kate Atkinson welcomes a first novel that's "a joy to read: fresh, funny, and always unexpected."

It's the first summer of lust for 14-year-old Jim Finnegan, a boy trying to become a man in 1980s Dublin. Jim's days are spent navigating his boisterous family, taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend, dancing to Foreigner on his boombox, and quietly coveting the local girls from afar.

Jim's teenage dreams come true when he wins the attention of a beautiful older girl-but he also becomes the target of a devious religious figure in the community. When Jim and his girlfriend take a clandestine trip by ferry to London, the dark and difficult repercussions of their journey force Jim to look for the solution to all his problems in some very unusual places.

THE FIELDS is an unforgettable portrait of a boy who sinks into troubles as he grows into a man, and the loving but fractured family that might be his downfall--or his salvation.

About this title

Review:

"A joy to read: fresh, funny, moving, and always unexpected."
--- Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life and Case Histories

It's not often, reading a first novel, that you can settle back with a happy sigh, confident that you're in safe hands...Fresh, beguiling, and laugh-out-loud funny on every page, this must be the most enjoyable Irish novel since Skippy Dies."--The Guardian

"Magic and weirdly moving."--The Times (London)

Book Description:

The launch of a major new literary voice in Irish/British fiction: set in 1980s Dublin and London, The Fields tells the vividly evocative story of Jim Finnegan's unfairly interrupted adolescence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0316223557
• ISBN 13: 9780316223553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416