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The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
Adrian Duncan
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AN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025 'An original voice' Colm Tóibín 'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times 'A deliberative and delicate reading experience, revelatory in the truest sense of that word' Guardian During winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life. Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking ... Read more
AN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025 'An original voice' Colm Tóibín 'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times 'A deliberative and delicate reading experience, revelatory in the truest sense of that word' Guardian During winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life. Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2025
Publisher
Tuskar Rock
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781805221944
SKU
9781805221944
Shipping Time
Will be shipped on or around publication date
Ref
99-197
About Adrian Duncan
Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist and writer who originally trained as a structural engineer. Duncan was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2023, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award in 2023 and 2021, longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2021 and won the John McGahern Book Prize in 2020.
Reviews for The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
One of the most important and intriguing writers working now
Niamh Campbell, author of This Happy Uncanny, strange and exquisite, akin to the fictions of László Krasznahorkai
Financial Times
The kind of work that makes you remember why you read
Sunday Business Post
A deliberative and delicate reading experience, revelatory in the truest sense of ... Read more
Niamh Campbell, author of This Happy Uncanny, strange and exquisite, akin to the fictions of László Krasznahorkai
Financial Times
The kind of work that makes you remember why you read
Sunday Business Post
A deliberative and delicate reading experience, revelatory in the truest sense of ... Read more