Star of the Sea
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
Published on 3. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-5291-1263-4 (ISBN)
Description
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York.
On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist and a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. Each is connected more deeply than they can possibly know.
But a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution.
**A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK SINCE 2000**
Perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell's Land
'A triumph...A spectacular breakthrough' Sunday Times
'Ireland's most brilliant storyteller' Independent on Sunday
JOSEPH O'CONNOR'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, MY FATHER'S HOUSE, IS AVAILABLE NOW
On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist and a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. Each is connected more deeply than they can possibly know.
But a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution.
**A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK SINCE 2000**
Perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell's Land
'A triumph...A spectacular breakthrough' Sunday Times
'Ireland's most brilliant storyteller' Independent on Sunday
JOSEPH O'CONNOR'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, MY FATHER'S HOUSE, IS AVAILABLE NOW
Reviews / Votes
A page-turner of a masterpiece. Don't miss it * Daily Mail * Stunningly accomplished * Guardian * A triumph...A spectacular breakthrough...it raises the bar for contemporary Irish fiction * Sunday Times * A terrific story... A stealthily gripping narrative * Daily Telegraph * This is Joseph O'Connor's best book. It is shocking, hilarious, beautifully written, and very, very clever -- Roddy Doyle His most substantial and impressive novel to date. Sad and funny, Star of the Sea tacks and veers in surprising directions, but follows a subtly plotted course to its final satisfying landfall * Irish Times * A masterful storyteller... A thrilling tale...O'Connor writes with nothing less than incandescent passion... Unfailingly gripping * The Times * A modern masterpiece... The language is absolutely gorgeous -- Bob Geldof There is so much that is memorable in the Star of the Sea... Grounded upon well researched, vivid, unprejudiced empathy * Sunday Telegraph * Sensitive, thoughtful and rich with the spoils of its author's plunder of the past * Irish Independent *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5291-1263-4 (9781529112634)
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E-Book
01/2011
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Vintage Digital
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Joseph O'Connor's fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay, My Father's House, a Washington Post Book of the Year, and The Ghosts of Rome. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick
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