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Winterwood

3.12 ( 1,004 Ratings by Goodreads)
Winterwood

Winterwood

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3.12 (1,004 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 6 November, 2006
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The intention was, of course, to bring her out to Winterwood - to that magical place that only me and her knew - but I wouldn't tell her that until much later on, for I wanted it to be as much of a surprise as possible On a return to his home place in the mountainy middle of Ireland, Redmond Hatch meets old Pappie Strange, a fiddler and teller of tales whose honeyed words and giddy reels have persuaded the local mothers and fathers, anxious at the loss of traditional values, to bring their little lambs to his Saturday morning ceilidhs. Once, in Kilburn, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine, and sharing his daughter Immy's passion for My Little Pony, with its enchanted kingdom of Winterwood, Redmond was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the 'scary things' from which he would protect his daughter steal into the magic kingdom, and the bad things begin to happen. Now Redmond - once little Red - prowls the barren outlands alone, haunted by the disgraced shade of Ned Strange. A shape-shifter, Red reinvents himself as Dominic Tiernan, builds a new life in TV, finds a new wife and begins to know domestic happiness once more. Then one day, in Dublin, he spies Catherine again Like the best old songs and folk tales, this is a story both simple and complex, shot through with recurring themes and motifs, ribbons of song, rags of lore. Full of raucous humour and savage satire, Winterwood taps deep into the old, dark, unseen places below the shiny surface of modern Ireland. It is Patrick McCabe's most disturbing, original and accomplished novel yet.
Prizes

Shortlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780747583615
ISBN10 0747583617
Number Of Pages 242
Item Weight 458 g
Product Dimensions 142 x 32 x 216 mm
Publisher / Reseller Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format hardback
Edition 1st
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'He is the fortunate possessor of a savage and unfettered imagination; his books dissect life's miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpel.' The Times Praise for BREAKFAST ON PLUTO: 'Wild, hilarious, merciless and fiendishly clever.' Independent on Sunday Praise for THE BUTCHER BOY: 'A brilliant book, so very funny as well as being heartrendingly sad.' J P Donleavy 'The most astonishing Irish novel for many year, a masterpiece.' Sunday Independent

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Author's Bio

Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, Co Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. His novels include Carn, The Dead School and The Butcher Boy, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and made into a highly acclaimed film directed by Neil Jordan. Breakfast On Pluto, published in 1998, was also on the Booker Prize shortlist. He lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.

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