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Tatty
Christine Dwyer Hicks
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Description for Tatty
paperback. With the brutal clarity and touching honesty of a child, Tatty tells the story of her alcoholic family, painting a portrait of a disintegrating family, and the child lost within it. This tragic novel takes the reader on a journey into the mind of a small girl. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
Hailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl.
With brutal honesty, Tatty tells the story of her life with her beloved, feckless Dad, her tormented Mam, her five siblings and the booze that brings them down. This not just an entertaining tale, but also a heartbreaking account of a disturbed childhood that makes for compulsive reading.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
161g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099499350
SKU
V9780099499350
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Christine Dwyer Hicks
Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. Twice winner of the Listowel Writers' Week Short Story Competition, she was also a prize winner in the prestigious Observer/Penguin Short-Story Competition. Her trilogy, The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker, has received wide critical acclaim, and The Dancer was shortlisted for the Listowel Writers' Week Book of the Year. ... Read more
Reviews for Tatty
Christine Dwyer Hickey's marvellous novel is a wonderful achievement. She gets the very sense, smell and taste of a child's world so authentically correct.
Irish Examiner
Some of the finest writing of this century and the last.
Irish Independent
Dwyer Hickey's mastery of the child's voice is spectacular and her acute understanding of the mentality of ... Read more
Irish Examiner
Some of the finest writing of this century and the last.
Irish Independent
Dwyer Hickey's mastery of the child's voice is spectacular and her acute understanding of the mentality of ... Read more