A Provincial Death
Published on 25. February 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-912868-65-0 (ISBN)
Description
Lyrical and blackly comic, A Provincial Death is a startlingly original meditation on solitude and perseverance, the consolations of art and philosophy, and the capacity of human beings to endure catastrophe.
It is a hot, summer morning and Smyth, a struggling writer and academic, wakes to discover he is stranded alone on a rock in the Irish Sea. As he clings on in hope of salvation, he is assailed by broken memories and the failures of his past. Fragmented images of the previous day come to him: a mysterious research institute, a dead forest, a rickety boat captained by a gruff old fisherman, an eccentric academic named McGovern who believed that the Moon was about to crash into the Earth, destroying everything. Confused, weary and sore, and with the tide rising inexorably and strange sea creatures circling, Smyth tries to make sense of an arbitrary world in a desperate bid for survival.
It is a hot, summer morning and Smyth, a struggling writer and academic, wakes to discover he is stranded alone on a rock in the Irish Sea. As he clings on in hope of salvation, he is assailed by broken memories and the failures of his past. Fragmented images of the previous day come to him: a mysterious research institute, a dead forest, a rickety boat captained by a gruff old fisherman, an eccentric academic named McGovern who believed that the Moon was about to crash into the Earth, destroying everything. Confused, weary and sore, and with the tide rising inexorably and strange sea creatures circling, Smyth tries to make sense of an arbitrary world in a desperate bid for survival.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambs
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
6 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912868-65-0 (9781912868650)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Person
Eoghan Smith is an Irish writer, critic and academic. He is the author of three novels The Failing Heart, A Provincial Death and A Mind Winter. He has also written a monograph on John Banville & was co-editor of a collection of essays on Irish suburban literary and visual cultures.
He has contributed numerous essays, articles and reviews on literature and visual culture to a variety of academic and literary publications, including The Irish Times, Books Ireland, & Dublin Review of Books, . He has taught English literature at universities in Dublin, Maynooth and Carlow since the mid-2000s
He has contributed numerous essays, articles and reviews on literature and visual culture to a variety of academic and literary publications, including The Irish Times, Books Ireland, & Dublin Review of Books, . He has taught English literature at universities in Dublin, Maynooth and Carlow since the mid-2000s