![]() ![]() "This in-depth look at the life of one adopted man in post-war Ireland will make you laugh, weep, and live-tweet at two in the morning." "The most inviting and completely spellbinding book this author has ever written.an outstandingly memorable achievement." The Heart's Invisible Furies is a brilliant, moving history of an Irishman, and of modern Ireland itself." "A big, sweeping novel.Cyril's intelligent, witty voice takes us all the way through to the end of his life. Infused with heart and humor, as well as a keen sense of man's capacity for cruelty, The Heart's Invisible Furies pulsates with life's complexity and progress' slow march." "Boyne writes scenes that will make a reader laugh and cry-without saccharine sentiment or flippancy. "An epic full of verve, humour and heart. "This is nothing less than the story of Ireland over the past 70 years, expressed in the life of one man.highly entertaining and often very funny.Big and clever." Searing heartbreak loneliness a quest for internal and external redemption, solace, and contentment are all there in The Heart's Invisible Furies." characters are cinematically rendered, with a deft, decadent wit that will make you laugh aloud at least once. And it is charming and funny, even as it dives down from the precipice of endearing humor into the very specific ironies and cruelties of real life. "With intricate narrative precision, The Heart's Invisible Furies cuts to the heart of what family is, how it is chosen, and how it endures. "A picaresque, lolloping odyssey for the individual characters and for the nation that confines them.The book blazes with anger as it commemorates lives wrecked by social contempt and self-loathing. explore the relationship between Catholicism and patriarchy in midcentury Ireland and beyond." "Bleak, bittersweet, and Irish to the bone. "By turns whimsical and heartbreaking, Boyne's sprawling novel treads Dickensian territory across seven decades of Irish history, ending with a redemption for both a country and a native son." Finalist for the 2018 LAMBDA Literary Awardsįinalist for the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
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