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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
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
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. Christine has also written a screenplay, adapted from her own short story, for the film No Better Man, starring Niall Toibin. She lives in Palmerstown with her family.
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 children leads to some hilarious moments.
Sunday Tribune
Beautiful and heartbreaking.
Sunday Independent
Dwyer Hickey gives Tatty a fragile resilience. It makes for authentic fiction.
The Sunday Times
Completely fresh - I was blown away by this book. It is absolutely wonderful. I want everyone to read it.
The View
Such is Hickey's power that, as a reader, you'll soon feel that you have become the very necessary person for Tatty - someone who knows everything about her, and longs to protect her. And when the book ends so suddenly that you feel you are abandoning her, the effect is shattering. Tatty devastates in a way that only the most unsentimental novels can.
Sunday Independent
Brilliantly observed...The achievement is the creation of Tatty's voice, a voice that guides the reader through this world from the child's limited perspective...Dwyer Hickey successfully juxtaposes the ordinary and the extraordinary
Irish Times
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 children leads to some hilarious moments.
Sunday Tribune
Beautiful and heartbreaking.
Sunday Independent
Dwyer Hickey gives Tatty a fragile resilience. It makes for authentic fiction.
The Sunday Times
Completely fresh - I was blown away by this book. It is absolutely wonderful. I want everyone to read it.
The View
Such is Hickey's power that, as a reader, you'll soon feel that you have become the very necessary person for Tatty - someone who knows everything about her, and longs to protect her. And when the book ends so suddenly that you feel you are abandoning her, the effect is shattering. Tatty devastates in a way that only the most unsentimental novels can.
Sunday Independent
Brilliantly observed...The achievement is the creation of Tatty's voice, a voice that guides the reader through this world from the child's limited perspective...Dwyer Hickey successfully juxtaposes the ordinary and the extraordinary
Irish Times