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ISBN
0670019402
Book Title
Secret Scripture
Item Length
8.5 in
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year
2008
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Sebastian Barry
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Family Life, Literary, Biographical, Historical
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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A gorgeous new novel from the author of the Man Booker finalist A Long Long Way As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her life. As Roseanne revisits her past, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards in her bedroom, she learns that Roscommon Hospital will be closed in a few months and that her caregiver, Dr. Grene, has been asked to evaluate the patients and decide if they can return to society. Roseanne is of particular interest to Dr. Grene, and as he researches her case he discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseanne’s life than what she recalls. As doctor and patient attempt to understand each other, they begin to uncover long-buried secrets about themselves. Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the twentieth century.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670019402
ISBN-13
9780670019403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63859231

Product Key Features

Book Title
Secret Scripture
Author
Sebastian Barry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary, Biographical, Historical
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LeafCats
377
Lc Classification Number
Pr6052.A729s43 2008
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Reviews
“These lives are reimagined in language of surpassing beauty. Above all it is the surpassing quality of Mr. Barry’s language that gives it its power . . . Mr. Barry has said that his novels and plays often begin as poems (he is a published poet), but his language never clots the flow of his story; it never gives a whiff of labor and strain. It is like a song, with all the pulse of the Irish language, a song sung liltingly and plaintively from the top of Ben Bulben into the airy night.â€� –Dinitia Smith, NY Times Daily Book Review “Just as he (Barry) describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down . . . When I reached the last page, I did feel that I had shared a profound experience . . .â€� –Margot Livesey, The Boston Globe “Luminous and lyrical.â€� –Pam Houston, O Magazine “I’d nominate Sebastian Barry, the most exhilarating prose stylist in Irish fiction—which just about makes him, by definition, the best prose writer in the English language . . . Barry has shown a dazzling facility with poetry, drama and fiction—his works form a mosaic-like whole, though each stands on its own. He never uses a fancy word when a simple one will do; his characters speak a plain vocabulary, but in cadences tempered and honed into poetry . . . Sebastian Barry’s achievement is unlike that of any other modern Western writer, a tapestry of interrelated works in different mediums woven from strands of his past and that of his country. The Secret Scripture fits seamlessly into a vision that seeks to restore with language that which has been taken away by history.â€� –Allen Barra, Salon.com, These lives are reimagined in language of surpassing beauty. Above all it is the surpassing quality of Mr. Barry’s language that gives it its power . . . Mr. Barry has said that his novels and plays often begin as poems (he is a published poet), but his language never clots the flow of his story; it never gives a whiff of labor and strain. It is like a song, with all the pulse of the Irish language, a song sung liltingly and plaintively from the top of Ben Bulben into the airy night.” –Dinitia Smith, NY Times Daily Book Review Just as he (Barry) describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down . . . When I reached the last page, I did feel that I had shared a profound experience . . .” –Margot Livesey, The Boston Globe Luminous and lyrical.” –Pam Houston, O Magazine I’d nominate Sebastian Barry, the most exhilarating prose stylist in Irish fiction—which just about makes him, by definition, the best prose writer in the English language . . . Barry has shown a dazzling facility with poetry, drama and fiction—his works form a mosaic-like whole, though each stands on its own. He never uses a fancy word when a simple one will do; his characters speak a plain vocabulary, but in cadences tempered and honed into poetry . . . Sebastian Barry’s achievement is unlike that of any other modern Western writer, a tapestry of interrelated works in different mediums woven from strands of his past and that of his country. The Secret Scripturefits seamlessly into a vision that seeks to restore with language that which has been taken away by history.” –Allen Barra, Salon.com
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2007-041716
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Dewey Edition
22

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  • by mjctexas
    Oct 01, 2009

    The Secret Scripture by Sebastion Barry

    This book has a marvelous story line and the ending is certainly an unexpected surprise. I think it could have been a really great read, but I found the reading to be very tedious. I normally do not skip passages but I found myself doing this more often than not. Mr. Barry has a wonderful knack for storytelling, with long descriptive passages, but I fear he needs a much tighter editor. At times, I thought the writing was a bit disjointed, it was hard to know what was really going on...but, that said, I did finish it. There was also a one sentence remark about Clinton and Bush which I found rather weird and certainly out of place. I was reading his novel about Ireland and was not soliciting, nor was I interested in, his opinion on American politics.

  • by amb63659
    Feb 24, 2024

    Don’t Miss This Book

    Absolutely lovely, well-written and heart wrenching book.

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  • by 0AvhQORYTay@Deleted
    Sep 08, 2008

    Love it!!!!

    This book is nothing like anything I've ever read. It is a haunting book (with beautiful creations), riddled with secrets and often populated by ghosts. In their quiet way they are also deeply subversive. I would recommend it to anyone !

  • by obsessedreader2
    Feb 09, 2009

    secret not worth revealing

    I bought this book to join in a local discussion group. I am almost done, and have found most of it to be very tedious (but I have this compulsion to finish all books). There is no way I would recommend that anybody read it!

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