Nothing Happens in Carmincross - Hardcover

KIELY, Benedict

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575036702 ISBN 13: 9780575036703

Publisher: Godine, 1985

Synopsis

Mervyn returns to Ireland for his niece's wedding in Carmincross and is forced to confront the realities of modern Irish life

About this title

About the Author:

Along with Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Cronin and the painter Louis le Brocquy, Benedict Kiely is a Saoi of the Aosdana - an honour of the Irish state limited to five Irish citizens who have shown sustained distinction in the arts. His other work includes The Collected Short Stories of Benedict Kiely and The Captain with the Whiskers.

Review:

"* 'The principle thrust of this book is a revulsion against terrorism of both homegrown and international varieties. It is an all too timely theme, and one to which this remarkable novel does justice in a masterly fashion' John Gross, New York Times * 'No man not weighted with loss could summon the anger that is behind this book. He gives us the natural world, the evolutionary history, and the society that is in shreds within them' William Kennedy, author of The Albany Cycle * 'Readers may find it hard to see much scope for comedy in such material, yet it is often brilliantly funny...it brings a searing wit to the grim events it describes. But the atrocities he conjures up are atrocities indeed' John Gross, New York Times * 'If you are thinking of going to Ireland this summer, take care to read this book. In its deceptively rambling manner it conveys, better than any other book I can think of, a sense of the relationship of modern Catholic Ireland to its past, and the bearing of that relation on its future' Conor Cruise O'Brien, New York Review of Books"

About this edition

• Publisher: Godine
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0575036702
• ISBN 13: 9780575036703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320