The Black Snow
Author of the 2023 Booker Prize-Winning novel Prophet Song
$24.01
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2015
Summary
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED PROPHET SONG.
‘Paul Lynch is peerless’ Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers
In the spring of 1945, farm-worker Matthew Peoples runs into a burning byre and does not come out alive. The farm’s owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle are destroyed in the blaze.
Following the disaster, the bull-headed and proudly self-sufficient Barnabas is forced to reach out to the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782062073 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782062076 |
| Author: | Paul Lynch |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
‘Forged in his own new and wonderful language, Paul Lynch reaches to the root, branch and bole of things, and unfurls a signal masterpiece’ Sebastian Barry.
Raw, savage, tender … Lynch has an impressive gift for storytelling - Guardian
A classic tragic hero … The striking talent of its author is his brilliant ability to reinvent the English language … There is a magic to this kind of writing - Irish TimesAbout The Author
Paul Lynch
Paul Lynch was born in 1977 and lives in Dublin. He was the chief film critic of Ireland’s Sunday Tribune newspaper from 2007-2011. He has written regularly for the Sunday Times on film and has also written for the Irish Times, the Sunday Business Post, the Irish Daily Mail and Film Ireland.
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