An old man looks back on a life lived largely in exile in this astonishing illustrated novel
Timothy O'Grady was born in Chicago and has lived in Ireland, London, Spain and Poland. He was in Las Vegas after receiving a fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute there and stayed on for another year to teach. He has written three works of non-fiction, Curious Journey, On Golf and, most recently, Divine Magnetic Lands, an account of a return journey around America after thirty years of living in Europe. His novels are Motherland, I Could Read the Sky and Light.
"If the words tell the story of the voiceless, the bleak, lovely photographs that accompany it show their faces... Fiction rarely gets as close to the messy, glorious truth, as do memories and photographs. This rare novel dares to use both" -- Charlotte Mendelson Times Literary Supplement "Speaks in the manner of an important work of art, memorably and beautifully" -- Anthony Cronin Sunday Independent "There are not many books [this year] that seem to me written with comparable force [or] depth of feeling" -- Dan Jacobson Sunday Telegraph "What Pyke and O'Grady have done is read our imagination" -- Dermot Healy Sunday Tribune
"If the words tell the story of the voiceless, the bleak, lovely photographs that accompany it show their faces... Fiction rarely gets as close to the messy, glorious truth, as do memories and photographs. This rare novel dares to use both" -- Charlotte Mendelson Times Literary Supplement "Speaks in the manner of an important work of art, memorably and beautifully" -- Anthony Cronin Sunday Independent "There are not many books [this year] that seem to me written with comparable force [or] depth of feeling" -- Dan Jacobson Sunday Telegraph "What Pyke and O'Grady have done is read our imagination" -- Dermot Healy Sunday Tribune
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