The Fisher Child - Softcover

Casey, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330483021 ISBN 13: 9780330483025

Publisher: Picador, 2002

Synopsis

Dan and Kate first met as children. Now they are married, in love, parents to a boy and girl, and expecting another child. But when Meg is born, trust is replaced by suspicion and anger, and Dan retreats to Ireland, seeking to understand what has happened to his family. And there, as the story dives into the past, his bewilderment is revealed to have ancient roots.

‘A complex novel of contrasts and parallels within the emotions, prejudices and self-awareness of two males linked by a name and a secret . . . A rare treat’ Dermot Bolger, Sunday Independent, Dublin

‘Quietly compassionate . . . moving, sensuous . . . A wise, tender novel’ Times Literary Supplement

‘A beautiful, evocative tale of love tested . . . From its mesmerizing opening chapters in Florence, through the shocking climax to the close, the complicated inter-family relationships threaded with echoes of the past are woven with exquisite skill’ Irish Examiner

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Review:

...this wise, tender novel. -Paul Magrs, TLS From its mesmerizing opening chapters in Florence, through the shocking climax to the close, the complicated inter-family relationships threaded with echoes of the past are woven with exquisite skill. A beautiful, evocative tale of love tested. -Sue Leonard, The Irish Examiner In its own quiet way this novel is unsettling and even shocking as it challenges the reader to step into Dan's shoes: are you as open-minded, as trusting, as loyal as you think you are? -Kirkus The novel's final image is startling, enigmatic, beautiful and challenging. Through it, Casey appears to urge a re-examination of that which we assume to be philosophically ordered, and to confront our own dreams just as Dan does: which implies that nothing is separate and that the world has a wild interdependance that rises even from the genetic, cellular mine of our own bodies. A fresh and intriguing book that many writers would love to have written. - Mary O'Donnell, Amazon Casey, one of the quiet men of Irish writing, is a careful, diligent storyteller, and, as he has shown here, daring. [his]... attempts to describe the emergence of modern Irish society, its myths, its realities and bitter truths, through his Bann River Trilogy, remains brave and honest. -Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

From the Author:

The current synopsis is inaccurate. I would be grateful if a new synopis was extracted from the above Description. Thank you. Philip Casey

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330483021
• ISBN 13: 9780330483025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272