The Canal Bridge - Softcover

Phelan, Tom

4.14

200 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843510758 ISBN 13: 9781843510758

Publisher: The Lilliput Press, 2005

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The dramatic story of two Irish friends who join the British to fight in World War I despite the troubles tearing apart their homeland.

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About the Author:

TOM PHELAN was born in 1940 and raised in Mountmellick, Co. Laois. He was ordained in 1965, emigrated to the USA in 1970 and left the priesthood in 1977. He now lives in New Jersey, where he teaches English. He is author of two previous novels: In the Season of the Daisies (1993) and Iscariot (1999).

Review:

Tom Phelan's The Canal Bridge is the best novel of love in the time of war since Cold Mountain. It is an old-fashioned story in the very best sense: dramatic, passionate, unpredictable, gorgeously written, heartbreakingly true, ultimately ennobling. This is truly a great book. I loved every page.” Howard Frank Mosher, author of Walking to Gatlinburg
The Canal Bridge is a tour de force of writing, passionate, moving, and brilliant. Here is World War I in all its madness, and its terrible humanity.” Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd
There is no false bravado in Phelan’s riveting, unsparing account, no sentimentality, no hollow heroes, no hyper-patriotic blather. Phelan’s characters live and breathe and bleed. Phelan’s fiction is the real thing. The Canal Bridge is a classic.” Peter Quinn, author of The Banished Children of Eve and Dry Bones
Another First World War masterpiece . . . Ambitious, accomplished, and deeply moving.” Irish Independent
Effectively constructed and emotionally honest . . . the reader gains a new perspective on how the Great War decimated lives throughout Europe." Booklist, starred review
Masterful . . . Must be ranked among the most successful novels dealing with the First World War.” Irish Emigrant
Phelan is a marvelous storyteller. Don’t miss out on a great contemporary author.” Irish Eyes (Paris)
Incredibly moving story . . . The writing is consistently stunning.” Irish Echo
The Canal Bridge sings and weeps . . . Thrilling.” Celtic Connection
Powerful and deeply affecting.” Books Ireland
More than just a war story . . . Tom Phelan has created a powerfully imagined story from these little known years of that war . . . [He] handles his narrative voices extraordinarily well.” allinoneboat.org

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