An Apology For Roses (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by The Lilliput Press Ltd, Dublin, 2026
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Paperback. She had been born with a greater capacity for love and pleasure than most people; and her nature had very early on found itself at war with the primitive, property-ridden society in which she was reared. The story of Marie Fogerty, a young girl caught between two lovers, exposes the social and religious hypocrisy of an Irish town in the 1970s. Marie has grown dissatisfied with her affair with Fr Tom Moran, a loveless relationship condoned by her parents, observed by the town, and borne from mutual listlessness. However, the arrival of Brian Langley, a salesman from Galway, offers Marie glimpses of a new and passionate life. Brians suspicions about Maries past loves, and the dwindling health of Maries father threaten to tear apart a relationship that stands outside of a small towns social norms. A meditation on love and possession, An Apology for Roses remains as relevant today as it was when it first appeared in print. The story of Marie Fogerty, a young girl caught between two lovers, exposes the social and religious hypocrisy of an Irish town in the 1970s. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- An Apology For Roses (Paperback)
- Author
- John Broderick
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd, Dublin
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 184351978X
- ISBN 13
- 9781843519782
First published in 1973 and swiftly banned, John Broderick’s An Apology for Roses returns as one of the most audacious portraits of provincial Ireland ever written. Set in a midlands town where respectability masks obsession, corruption and thwarted desire, the novel follows the intersecting lives of Marie Fogarty – clever, restless, dangerously sure of her own charm – and Father Tom Moran, the charismatic curate drawn into her orbit. Around them spin the claustrophobic rituals of family, gossip, religion and commerce: suffocating drawing‑rooms heated to excess, whispered devotions, clandestine meetings in lakeside chalets, nights of hunger, fear, exhilaration and betrayal.
Broderick exposes the hypocrisies of Irish Catholic life with wit, psychological acuity and a fearless eye for the erotic and the grotesque. A novel banned in its own time for its frankness, An Apology for Roses stands now as a darkly glittering masterpiece, bold, unsettling, and unforgettably alive.
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About the Author
John Broderick (1924–1989) was a novelist, critic and patron of the arts, celebrated for his unsparing portraits of Irish provincial life. The only child of a bakery family, he lived for periods in Paris, forming friendships with writers such as Julien Green, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote. His debut novel The Pilgrimage (1961) was banned in Ireland but appeared in the U.S. as The Chameleons, establishing his reputation. A pioneering writer of queer Irish lives, Broderick was contributor to The Irish Times, and was elected to the Irish Academy of Letters in 1968. He died in Bath in 1989, bequething his estate to support the arts of his home town of Athlone.
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