Joyride to Jupiter
Published on 1. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-84840-615-5 (ISBN)
Description
A heartbroken man deals with his wife's Alzheimer's as best he can. The Jesus of O'Connell Street reflects on his situation, which isn't half bad. A too-young girl witnesses her father's shocking infidelity. A quiet murder on a riverbank. Imperfect lovers and unlikely friends thwart and bolster each other as they act out their dramas on the beaches of Brazil, in the bedrooms of Dublin, and in the wilds of North America. With prose both lyrical and profound, the award-winning Nuala O'Connor writes of maternal love and cross-generational friendship but here, also, are stories of ageing, suicide, and the buoyancy of new love. In these urgent, humane stories of ill-advised couplings, loneliness and burgeoning hope, we find O'Connor's trademark humour and sensuality, and the quest for longed-for truths. A truly stunning collection by one of Ireland's finest writers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
199 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84840-615-5 (9781848406155)
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Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1970, Nuala Ni Chonchuir (aka Nuala O'Connor) is a fiction writer and poet. Nuala's second novel, The Closet of Savage Mementos was published by New Island in April 2014. Nuala holds a BA in Irish from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Translation Studies (Irish/English) from Dublin City University. She has worked as an arts administrator in theatre and in a writers' centre; as a translator, as a bookseller and also in a university library. Nuala teaches creative writing on a part-time basis. She lives in County Galway with her husband and three children.