Maeve Binchy (1940–2012)
Autor(a) de Tara Road
About the Author
Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, Ireland on May 28, 1940. She received a B.A. from University College in Dublin in 1960. After teaching at a school for girls, she became a journalist, columnist and editor at the Irish Times. By 1979, she was writing plays, a successful television script, and mostrar mais several short story collections. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 20 books including Silver Wedding, Scarlet Feather, Heart and Soul, Minding Frankie, and A Week in Winter. The Lilac Bus and Echoes were made into TV movies, while Circle of Friends, Tara Road and How About You were made into feature films. Her title Chestnut Street is a New York Times Best Seller. She died after a brief illness on July 30, 2012 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Maeve Binchy
Time-Life Book Digest: Circle of Friends | Magic Hour | Jurassic Park | Forgiving (1991) 8 exemplares
Time-Life Book Digest: The Copper Beech | Red Square | My Breast: One Woman's Cancer Story | The Generals Daughter 2 exemplares
2920129546 2 exemplares
A week in Winter 1 exemplar
White Thorn Woods 1 exemplar
Il lago di cristallo 1 exemplar
Evening class 1 exemplar
NIGHT OF RAIN AND STARS 1 exemplar
Irische Sehnsucht 1 exemplar
This Year will be Differeent 1 exemplar
Time-Life Book Digest: McNally's Secret / The Duchess / Dance While You Can / The Lilac Bus 1 exemplar
Dusty's Winter 1 exemplar
Echoes | Nights of Rain and Stars 1 exemplar
Leopard Prince, The 1 exemplar
How About You 1 exemplar
Change of Circumstances 1 exemplar
Georgia Hall (in New Beginnings - KING) 1 exemplar
Echoes | Evening Class | Tara Road 1 exemplar
And All for Love ... (Advanced) 1 exemplar
Echoes | Silver Wedding 1 exemplar
Maeve Binchy: A Radio Collection: Four BBC Full-Cast Story Collections (BBC Audio) (2010) 1 exemplar
Homecoming and other stories 1 exemplar
the return wedding 1 exemplar
Walk in the Woods, A * 1 exemplar
Night School 1 exemplar
De Alma e Coração 1 exemplar
Vluchtige ontmoetingen 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Book Lovers' Appreciation Society: Breast Cancer Care Short Story Collection (2009) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Thicker Than Water: Coming-of-Age Stories by Irish & Irish American Writers (2001) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
New Beginnings: New Writing from Bestselling Authors Sold in Aid of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Earthquake Charities (2005) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
New Dubliners: Original Stories Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's Dubliners (2005) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Crossfire | Minding Frankie | Never Look Away | The Genesis Plague (2011) 5 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Riptide • The Copper Beech • The Himmler Equation • The Hills are Lonely (1993) 3 exemplares
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Never Look Away / Minding Frankie / The Genesis Plague / The Summer of the Bear (2011) 2 exemplares
Readers Digest Condensed Book: The Copper Bench / The Ice / Mrs. Washington and Horowitz, Too / All Around the Town (1998) 2 exemplares
De Cock en de dwaze maagden; Windkracht 12; Het hart op de tong; 24 uur — Autor — 1 exemplar
Summer Tides: A Collection of Short Stories 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Binchy Snell, Maeve
- Data de nascimento
- 1940-05-28
- Data de falecimento
- 2012-07-30
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Ierse
- Local de nascimento
- Dalkey, Ireland
- Local de falecimento
- Dublin, Ierland
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- Dalkey, Ierland
- Educação
- Holy Child Convent, Killiney, Ireland
University College Dublin - Ocupações
- Schrijfster
Lerares - Relações
- Snell, Gordon (Echtgenoot)
Binchy, Dan (Neef) - Organizações
- Irish Times
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- British Book Award (Lifetime Achievement Award ∙ 1999)
Irish Book Award Lifetime Achievement (2010)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Maeve Binchy was born on 28 May 1940 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of four. She studied at University College Dublin, then taught, and later became a journalist. She was married to Gordon Snell, also a writer.
Membros
Discussions
Novel: Wales bed-and-breakfast em Name that Book (Setembro 2016)
Críticas
Whitethorn Woods por Maeve Binchy
This story is around the small town of Rossmore (in Ireland) and the religious icon of St. Ann's Well in Whitethorn Woods. This is where the people of the town have prayed for generations as it is thought to have magical, spiritual powers. A highway is planned to be built nearby which would bypass the town, but create a greater volume of traffic passing the township. If the highway goes ahead, it will mean that it will go right through Whitethorn Woods, which in turn will mean that the magical well will need to go. This divides the community as some are opposed to the idea, as they believe in the powers of St Ann while others are for it the highway as they feel that there are no magical, spiritual powers forthcoming from praying at the foot of St Ann. The reader is introduced to the citizens of Rossmore (and their point of view regarding St Ann) by short vignettes about them which quickly describe their character and their stand on the issue of the well. The author, Maeve Binchy, introduces two very different people who are in the same situation, but who view it very differently. Binchy writes about a woman who in her desperation to have a child goes to extreme lengths and decides to kidnap a baby, and then shows the family from whom the infant was stolen ( I found this vignette sad all round). Some of the townspeople’s characters make you laugh, while others annoy you. Overall, a good read and I would read more books by Maeve Binchy.… (mais)
½
As with all the other Maeve Binchy books I've read, I loved this one too! 12 chapters...one for each month of the year in which the book takes place. Great story between Tom and Cathy, two catering school buddies who decide to open up their own catering business. There are side stories about the other characters in the book and they all intertwine. Maeve Binchy is a wonderful storyteller and this book did not disappoint. There was a time when I didn't think I would finish it before I had to return it to the library...I did renew it once! LOL!… (mais)
Very good book. I have no had the chance to read any of the other books by this author but I have read numerous reviews that this is just one of the many great ones she has. I was excited to start this book. The location sounds lovely and makes me want to visit. The characters are developed so well that you feel like you know them personally or that you want to know them personally.
A very early work telling tales about different people woven around the stations on these two London rail routes. some interesting characterisations.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 124
- Also by
- 28
- Membros
- 45,594
- Popularidade
- #355
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 918
- ISBN
- 1,669
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 145
