The Modern Library by Colm Tóibín & Carmen Callil

Author:Colm Tóibín & Carmen Callil [Tóibín, Colm & Callil, Carmen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1849016763
Amazon: B0056A9X6G
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2011-06-16T23:00:00+00:00

David Lodge was born in London. He has worked for many years as an academic. His comic gifts are apparent in early novels such as The British Museum is Falling Down (1965), and his later work includes How Far Can You Go? (1980), Therapy (1995), Home Truths (1999), Thinks (2001), Author, Author (2004) and Deaf Sentence (2008).

Age in year of publication: forty.

Bernard MacLaverty 1942–

1980 Lamb

Bernard MacLaverty’s three novels, Lamb, Cal (1983) and Grace Notes (1997), and his four volumes of short stories, deal with the dramatic possibilities of the conflict within the human character between the areas of darkness and brutality and the capacity for love and tenderness. His prose is clean and spare, combining a clear and easy tone with moments of pure poetry. He offers his characters a level of understanding and sympathy which is rare among contemporary male novelists; he is not afraid to create scenes of pure unadulterated emotion.

In Lamb, Brother Sebastian works in a Borstal in the west of Ireland. Using a legacy from his dead father, he escapes to England with a twelve-year-old boy, Owen Kane. The novel is the story of their misadventures; the boy’s vulnerability and his epilepsy make his minder more and more anxious to protect him and love him, and make the outside world of authority – brothers, lawyers, hotel keepers – seem harsh and cruel, and make the ending of this story of the failure of a dream of love inevitable and very moving. The novel is short – just over a hundred and fifty pages – and as tense as a thriller; the set scenes are perfect; the reader knows that this sojourn will be doomed and short-lived, and reads on in terror hoping that the two main characters will survive.

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