A Crooked Field

O'Gaora, Colm

ISBN 10: 0330376594 / ISBN 13: 9780330376594

Published by Picador, 2000

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # wbs8446797465

Synopsis:

An outcast in his own land, forced to sell his beloved fields to pay for his wife’s funeral and the rearing of his young daughter, Conor Kelly is increasingly bitter at the life he has been pushed into. As his daughter, Helen, grows up, her attempts to move out of her father’s dark shadow begin to drive them apart.

A Crooked Field is a beautiful and haunting novel about the search for one’s soul amidst the struggle between blind faith and reason. In O’Gaora’s resonant prose the exiled communities and darkened streets of London are as vividly imagined as the narrow lives and fluid landscapes of Ireland.

`There’s a grace and understated simplicity to his prose . . . reminiscent of John McGahern and William Trevor’ Christina Patterson, Observer

`If I read another debut novel that comes close to the power and grace of A Crooked Field I will be surprised, and while I could lap up a novel every week from this writer, when it’s quality like this, the quantity becomes an irrelevance’ Irish Post

`A novel distinguished by considerable imaginative power’ Irish Independent

About the Author: Colm O’Gaora was born in Dublin and is the author of a collection of short stories Giving Ground, as well as the widely-acclaimed novels A Crooked Field (1999) and Another Sky (2004).

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Crooked Field
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good