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Sebastian Barry

Autor(a) de The Secret Scripture

41+ Works 8,211 Membros 444 Críticas 30 Favorited

About the Author

Sebastian Barry is a playwright whose work has been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney, and New York. He lives in Wicklow, Ireland, with his wife and three children. Sebastian Barry is an Irish writer and playwright, born in 1955. He is the author of two novels, A Long Long Way and Days Without mostrar mais End, which won the Costa Book Award for best novel. His other awards include the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture (2008) 2,850 exemplares
Days without End (2016) 1,266 exemplares
A Long, Long Way (2005) 1,231 exemplares
On Canaan's Side (2011) 722 exemplares
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (0204) — Autor — 531 exemplares
Old God's Time (2023) 384 exemplares
Annie Dunne (2002) 380 exemplares
The Temporary Gentleman (2014) 308 exemplares
A Thousand Moons (2020) 292 exemplares
The Steward of Christendom (1996) 50 exemplares
De verre voortijd (2023) 21 exemplares
Our Lady of Sligo (1998) 18 exemplares
The Pride of Parnell Street (2007) 15 exemplares
Andersen's English (2010) 13 exemplares
Sebastian Barry Plays: 1 (1997) 12 exemplares
On Blueberry Hill (2017) 11 exemplares
Dallas Sweetman (2008) 8 exemplares
Hinterland (2002) 8 exemplares
Whistling Psyche/Fred and Jane (2004) 8 exemplares
Macker's garden (1982) 7 exemplares
The Engine of Owl-light (1987) 6 exemplares
Tales of Ballycumber (2009) 5 exemplares
The Pinkening Boy (2004) 5 exemplares
The Water-Colourist (1983) 3 exemplares
Temps immemorials (2023) 2 exemplares
Au bon vieux temps de Dieu (2023) 2 exemplares
The Rhetorical Town (1985) 1 exemplar
Boss Grady's Boys (2006) 1 exemplar
White Woman Street 1 exemplar
Gentleman auf Zeit (2017) 1 exemplar
A Russian Beauty 1 exemplar
Whistling Psyche (2010) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

In Parenthesis (1937) — Prefácio, algumas edições618 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contribuidor — 149 exemplares
Midsummer Nights (1702) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
The Secret Scripture [2016 film] (2016) — Original book — 7 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Barry, Sebastian
Data de nascimento
1955-07-05
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Ierland
Local de nascimento
Dublin, Ireland
Locais de residência
Dublin, Ireland
County Wicklow, Ireland
Educação
Trinity College, Dublin
Ocupações
playwright
novelist
poet
Organizações
Harry Ransom Center
University of Iowa
Villanova University
Prémios e menções honrosas
Lloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year Award (1995)
Agente
Derek Johns (AP Watt)

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Sebastian Barry is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. He was named Laureate for Irish Fiction, 2019–2021. He is noted for his dense literary writing style and is considered one of Ireland's finest writers.

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Discussions

October 2022: Sebastian Barry em Monthly Author Reads (Outubro 2022)
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry em Booker Prize (Setembro 2011)

Críticas

Really good story of the First World War and the mental confusion caused by the Easter Rising. Gets into the soldiers' minds plausibly. What it was like in the trenches.
 
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jgoodwll | 54 outras críticas | Mar 1, 2024 |
Thickly written ghost story.

"People endured horrors, and then they couldn't talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence."
 
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lelandleslie | 31 outras críticas | Feb 24, 2024 |
It took the first 100 pages for me to fully get into this book, but so worth it. Tom Kettle is a retired policeman living near the Irish Sea in a rather remote apartment. Two younger policemen come to visit and references are made to the "priests" - an unpleasant memory but the reader is not sure why.

A colleague of Tom's comes later and it seems he has been accused by a priest of killing another priest who is now accused of child molestation. Did Tom kill the first priest as an act of revenge due to the fact that the first priest had molested his wife June. Tom's childhood was terrible as an orphan living in an orphanage run by priests and nuns He joined the Army and became a sharpshooter in Malaysa which enabled him to join the police force.

The book is beautifully written (with some strange similes at times), and the ending brought tears. Both of his children, Joe and Winnie, have died terrible deaths, his wife is gone, and how much of his memories are correct. This is truly a case of an unreliable narrator.

Tom's entire life has been affected by tragedy, but he has survived. What memories are real, what are dreams. Ending brought tears.
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maryreinert | 31 outras críticas | Feb 23, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
41
Also by
4
Membros
8,211
Popularidade
#2,947
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
444
ISBN
326
Línguas
15
Marcado como favorito
30

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