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Story of a Girl
Tom Mac Intyre
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Description for Story of a Girl
Hardcover. The girl in the story is both conduit and activating conscience. Through her clairvoyance we experience what her grandmother, who lives in a beech tree, terms "the noise of time". Has she been reading Mandelstam, whose memoir of the the name was absorbed in "The Egyptian Stamp" (1928)? Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136. .
The girl of this story is a clairvoyant. To the other children in the local National School, she is an ‘imbissil’, a creature of the margins. But she is a lightning-conductor for all that happens in one small Irish country town and through her are channeled all the dreams and desires of its exuberant inhabitants. The girl’s grandmother, lives in a beech tree, ‘screeching, singing … fragments constantly spilling out of her memory-box’; Vera McGettrick’s fiance blows his head off a week before their wedding; Liz Duffy, the ‘apostate’ who marries a protestant (‘the other crowd’), is denounced as a ... Read more
The girl of this story is a clairvoyant. To the other children in the local National School, she is an ‘imbissil’, a creature of the margins. But she is a lightning-conductor for all that happens in one small Irish country town and through her are channeled all the dreams and desires of its exuberant inhabitants. The girl’s grandmother, lives in a beech tree, ‘screeching, singing … fragments constantly spilling out of her memory-box’; Vera McGettrick’s fiance blows his head off a week before their wedding; Liz Duffy, the ‘apostate’ who marries a protestant (‘the other crowd’), is denounced as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lilliput Press
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510147
SKU
V9781843510147
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About Tom Mac Intyre
TOM MAC INTYRE, born in Cavan in 1931, is the author of many works of fiction, poetry and plays, including Stories of the Wandering Moon (2000) and The Great Hunger and The Gallant John-Joe (2002)
Reviews for Story of a Girl
‘Tom Mac Intyre’s wildly eloquent novel reads at times like Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood re-written by someone who has spent years reading Finnegan’s Wake. Here we are offered one voice that is unmistakably Irish and the accent is definitely Mac Intyre’s.’ Tome Widger, Sunday Tribune ‘Story of a Girl is a lyrical journey through an Ireland of another time. ... Read more