On Canaan's Side
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Penguin Putnam
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.
Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's … More »
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.
Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's … More »
Penguin Putnam
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.
Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland, at the end of the First World War, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's story unfolds as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, from the Great Depression to World War II and the Vietnam War, it is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous, and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing.
Baker & Taylor
Presents the tragic story of Lilly Bere, who flees Ireland for the United States under threat of death from the IRA and survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy, and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars.
Baker
& Taylor
The Man Booker Prize short-listed author ofThe Secret Scripture presents the tragic story of youngest daughter Lilly Bere, who after fleeing Ireland under threat of death from the IRA survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars.
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From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.
Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland, at the end of the First World War, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's story unfolds as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, from the Great Depression to World War II and the Vietnam War, it is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous, and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing.
Baker & Taylor
Presents the tragic story of Lilly Bere, who flees Ireland for the United States under threat of death from the IRA and survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy, and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars.
Baker
& Taylor
The Man Booker Prize short-listed author of
Imprint:
New York - Viking
Pages:
256
ISBN:
9780670022922, 0670022926
Language:
English
Statement of responsibility:
Sebastian Barry
Characteristics:
256 p. ;,22 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Barry, Sebastian
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Add a CommentIn this book, Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, marries a Black & Tan and flees to America. Overall, the main character was not sympathic and the novel was unsatisfying.
Barry uses language beautifully but does not develop his characters on a psychological level. It is a walk through history ,partly American .When I researched the author I found he had written other books about the Dunne family so perhaps those lend more insight into the characters. Overall I enjoyed this story.
Terrible, obtuse, cumbersome writing. Character development was non-existent. I had to read this for a book club and it was pure torture.
Wonderful story. You will fall in love with Lilly Bere...
The writing is a pleasure to read. An imaginative novel, although it tends to rely heavily on melodrama when it could have stood on the merits of excellent characterization.
"For three decades, Sebastian Barry has battled Ireland’s amnesia, evoking these banished histories in a series of award-winning plays and novels. “There is nothing called long-ago after all,” says Lilly Bere, the 89-year-old narrator of Sebastian Barry’s latest, Man Booker-nominated novel, On Canaan’s Side. “When things are summoned up, it is all present time, pure and simple. So that, much to my surprise, people I have loved are allowed to live again.” And live they do, through the mesmerizing voice of Lilly Bere, born into a blue-collar Irish family of Catholic loyalists at the beginning of the 20th century, and forced to flee to America – Canaan’s Side – by the violent dislocations of Irish politics." Elizabeth Grove-White Globe & Mail