Old God's Time

ISBN: 9780593296103

Год издания: 2023

Язык: Английский

272 pages, Hardcover

First published February 28, 2023

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ADAM BEGLEY, THE ATLANTIC

"A beautiful, tragic book ... Barry is a poet and playwright as well as a novelist, and lyricism and drama jostle in nearly all his sentences, many of which are stuffed to bursting ... The novel's ending is a dramatic exploration of the possibility of atonement. One cannot say for sure whether his putative redemption is 'verifiably' real or fantastical, but there can be no doubt about how Tom feels. The final pages are ravishing."

MICHAEL SCHAUB, NPR

"A relentlessly bleak, stunning novel about how the effects of violence and abuse can reverberate for years and across generations ... Barry has always had a gift for creating memorable characters, and Tom is one of his most fascinating ones, in large part because of his unreliability ... Barry's prose is, as usual, wonderful. The writing, at times, borders on stream of consciousness ... It likely goes without saying that Old God's Time can be immensely, almost physically painful to read ... A powerful, painful novel, another excellent offering from Barry, who is clearly one of the best Irish writers working today."